Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ongoing historical debate over the personal merits of Christopher Columbus is reserved for another time and place. For now, consider that many figures in American history are remembered for their accomplishments rather than their participation in the follies of their respective eras. We honor George Washington no less on Presidents’ Day because he owned slaves, but rather we honor him as the father of our country. To sacrifice the reputation, dignity, and heroism of a visionary man as a “symbol” for the worst excesses committed by colonial governments is both unfair and obtuse...
Queens, NY, Washington...
...never picked the easy way out or picked any of the obvious choices,” said classmate and fellow saxophonist Salim Washington ’93 PhD ’00. “Here is a person who has dedicated his art to his political ideals. Even when many people who used to be on the same path have renounced their principles, he has stood firm...
...basically wake up every morning and go to Widener Library and go to the stacks and read about vampires,” he says. Beyond merely hitting the books, they also engaged in some practical research. A few members of the Lampoon made a trip to Forks in Washington and went on a tour. “We had to live ‘Twilight’ for a while,” Grzecki says...
...once last summer. Granholm said she told the officials that she wasn't going to be open to the idea "unless they could demonstrate this wouldn't put a target on Michigan. It'd be a difficult sell, politically." David Fathi, U.S. program director at Human Rights Watch in Washington, urges caution in the rush of states moving into the business of transporting prisoners. "There's a risk that conditions will deteriorate as corners are cut to make more money," he says. (See TIME's graphic "Detroit: Now a Ghost Town...