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...according to “Making Harvard Modern,” a history of twentieth-century Harvard, Clark managed to break the logjam, creating “a politic sharing of appointments” between the Crits and the traditionalists. “By the end of the century, a new generation of faculty and students were less caught up in the old divisive issues...
...Niall Ferguson is the Tisch Professor of History and author of such books as ““The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Decline of the West...
...week the world mourns the death of one of the twentieth century’s most notorious leaders—General Augusto Pinochet of Chile. Pinochet rose to power in 1973 via a violent coup d’état and his tenure would eventually witness the deaths of over 3000 of his political enemies. He overthrew a democratically elected government, only to institute a ruthless totalitarian regime bathed in blood. He was a criminal, murderer, and thief—or so the headlines ubiquitous in the mainstream media would have us believe. Pinochet, however, is a man misunderstood...
...twentieth century saw more than its fair share of both wicked men, and individuals who countered their iniquity with crusades of justice. Pinochet, I believe, was a bit of both, but for the most part one of the latter. Pinochet—a devout and caring Christian man with an understanding of the dangers of radical socialism—deserves the respect from democrats the world around for his fight for freedom from tyranny in South America...
...Hurt,” in which black and white circus footage rolls over an ominous violin piece, may be the most disorienting thing a pop diva has done to video viewers since Britney’s spandex-in-space adventures of the late twentieth century. That is, of course, except for the remaining four minutes of the video. “Hurt,” which centers around a circus performer’s mournful memories of her deceased father, frames Aguilera’s melodramatic piano ballad in a world that looks like a cross between Carnival and Moulin...