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...Crossing the Moral Threshold Why U.S. leaders never questioned the idea of dropping the Bomb
...Crossing the Moral Threshold Why U.S. leaders never questioned the idea of dropping the Bomb
Because the new proposal, unlike Travaglini-Lees, originated outside the legislature, it would require a lower threshold of support to reach the popular ballot: only one-quarter of the legislature needs to support the motion in consecutive sessions for it to pass through to the ballot...
...answer is that Lincoln recognized early on that he needed the ex-slave to help him destroy the Confederacy and preserve the Union. And so at a time when most whites would not let a black man cross their threshold, the President met Douglass three times at the White House and found a startling way to enlist him in his cause. What was in it for Douglass, who at the midpoint of the Civil War came to believe that Lincoln was a racist who argued that blacks and whites should be kept apart? Douglass came to realize that Lincoln...
Once before in his entrepreneurial career, Glen Tullman was standing at the threshold when technology transformed an industry. In the '90s, he helped figure out a system that allowed insurance claims to be recorded and processed on computers, not paper. It made him a bundle...