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...Shipping Act of 1916, although mostly about maritime commerce, included a small clause requiring all national emergencies to be "declared by proclamation of the President." President Woodrow Wilson issued the first formal statement of national emergency the following year, on Feb. 5, 1917, in which he forbade American ship owners to sell their vessels to foreigners, arguing that they were needed to fight World War I. (See TIME's photo-essay "Landscapes of the Great...
...York” part of the publication’s title refers, I assume, merely to where it is edited, not to where it probes for material. New York-based careers sustained on writing alone—the path of independent-minded fellows like John Updike, Edmund Wilson, and John O’Hara gutsy enough to demand color pieces from magazine bigwigs and lucky enough to actually get them—have fallen off several levels in probability; many of America’s brightest minds are now holed up in grad programs, grading intro-level Expository Writing papers...
That site includes a link to ActBlue, a Democratic group supporting Joe Wilson opponent Rob Miller (Miller and Wilson raised more than $1 million each in contributions in the days after the outburst). However, most single-serving sites are not designed with money in mind. Brooklyn, N.Y., artist Damon Zucconi launched SometimesRedSometimesBlue.com in 2007 as a "poetic gesture." The site summons a screen filled with color that drew Zucconi for its beauty and simplicity. The 23-year-old has been creating websites since 2006; he's now up to 18. "It's a nice way to make a piece...
...largest economies never to have held an Olympics--is the first Latin country developed enough to give the region a second chance. "The IOC decision is an embrace of Brazil's practical way of doing things," says Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, referring to Lula's unique hybrid of market economics and progressive social policy...
...time of 25:40.1 marked a 37-second improvement over his previous effort. Sophomore Stephen Couch, freshman Ranvir Dhillion, sophomore Darcy Wilson, and rookie Weishen Mead rounded out the Crimson scorers on the 8k course, leaving Saretsky very encouraged...