Word: thatcherism
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...pleasant day out in a democratic capital. For Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, the former Chilean dictator, there will be no more trips to Piccadilly or, indeed, anywhere in Europe. As both arms buyer and tourist over the years, Pinochet loved to visit London, home of his good friend Margaret Thatcher. His was not the garish Piccadilly of ordinary tourists, but that of wealthy conservatives - retired colonels and such, who shop for books and fine tailoring and stay at select gentlemen's clubs, sipping old whisky with like-minded right-wingers. In 1999, Pinochet made one trip too many and found himself...
...offered tenured positions to many American historians and oversaw the department’s first tenure of a female in the American field, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, as the Phillips professor of early American history...
...don’t think of reenactments as a way of ‘teaching’ history but as a way of learning about, connecting with and enjoying history,” says Phillips Professor of History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich...
RETIRING. MARGARET THATCHER, 76, Europe's first woman Prime Minister, who as Conservative leader of Britain earned the nickname "Iron Lady" for her battles against socialism and the labor unions; from the public lecture circuit; after suffering a series of small strokes; in London...
Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, recently named Tom C. Conley, professor of romance languages and literatures, Peter T. Ellison, professor of anthropology, Michael McCormick, professor of history, Michael J. Sandel, professor of government, Kay K. Shelemay, Watts professor of music and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Phillips professor of early American history as recipients of the honor...