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- The end of resentment: has the well of middle class anger that Richard Nixon tapped finally run dry?
- Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein Scribner, 866 pp. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The best way to convey Rick Perlstein's achievement in writing Nixonland is to observe that he has taken one of the most endlessly chewed-over periods of American...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Patriots are game for naysayers
- Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the undefeated New England Patriots better beat the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII. Otherwise, they could be harshly second-guessed for letting the first 19-0 season in NFL history slip through their fingers, sportscasters say. Dynasties breed resentment. The Patriots'...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- Appearing on Jay Leno's show, Huckabee got off what everybody said was a really good line, even a killer line
- Appearing on Jay Leno's show, Huckabee got off what everybody said was a really good line, even a killer line. What he said was, "People are looking for a presidential candidate who reminds them more of the guy they work with rather than the guy that laid them off." He...
- Research articles 2008-01-28
- The Man In The Middle
- It’s been a long year for Tony Blair. After stepping down as Britain’s prime minister in June, under fire for his Iraq policy, he took on what many consider the hardest job in the Mideast: representative of the Quartet—the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations—to the...
- Research articles 2008-01-07
- Big net
- While E. Stanley O'Neal was at the head of Merrill Lynch, the brokerage firm posted its biggest quarterly loss in the company's history. How big? Try $2.24 billion. So what was the repercussion for O'Neal? The 56-year-old CEO has been forced out, but don't shed too...
- Research articles 2007-11-06
- Doris Lessing wins: but not, of course, for the right reasons
- TELEVISION has its moments, and one of them was a few days ago when an unsuspecting Doris Lessing returned home from the shops to find the press assembled in front of her house, and hear that she had just won the Nobel Prize. "Oh Christ!" was her immediate reaction. She...
- Research articles 2007-11-05
- US rejects claims of Maliki rift
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US administration is working to put its relationship with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki back on track, dispelling rumors of growing resentment over the seemingly intractable situation in Iraq. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Thursday said she was "sorry" if Maliki was offended by her comment...
- Research articles 2007-01-19
- Beckham's wages 'resented' by new team–mates
- LONDON AFP — David Beckham's multi-million pound contract with the LA Galaxy has sparked resentment amongst his new team-mates according to midfielder Peter Vagenas. Former England captain Beckham, currently at Real Madrid, has signed a five-year deal with the Major Soccer League club worth 128 million pounds and is due...
- Research articles 2007-01-19
- Heroes, weren't they?(The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation)(Book review)
- THE RACE BEAT: THE PRESS, THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE, AND THE AWAKENING OF A NATION BY GENE ROBERTS AND HANK KLIBANOFF Knopf, 518 pages, $30.00. ON FEBRUARY 6, 1956, PETER Kihss of The New York Times was covering the enrollment of the...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- Tonga's new king faces challenge of political reform
- NUKU'ALOFA AFP — The accession of King Siaosi Tupou V to the throne of Tonga on Monday raised a question mark over moves to reform the South Pacific nation's semi-feudal political system. While the 58-year-old former Crown Prince Tupouto'a is seen as more open to reform than his late father,...
- Research articles 2006-09-11
- Rich Hofmann | Just Chuck being Chuck
- There are some things that even heat like yesterday's will not melt. So Chuck Bednarik, age 81, stood there after the Eagles practiced and continued to project all of the pains and all of the prejudices he has accumulated over a lifetime. He was a star in the...
- Research articles 2006-08-03
- Rivals Kahn, Lehmann getting on says Koepke
- BERLIN AFP — Germany's goalkeeping coach Andreas Koepke has said that rival goalkeepers Jens Lehmann and Oliver Kahn were getting along fine at the World Cup finals. The 37-year-old Kahn lost a two-year battle with Lehmann, 36, for the number one jersey but Koepke insisted there was no resentment...
- Research articles 2006-06-27
- US efforts in Asia viewed with scepticism
- HONG KONG AFP — After years of praise for its humanitarian efforts in Asia, the United States faces resentment from Asian Muslims, angry about a string of controversies in Afghanistan and Iraq. As resentment grows, critics are asking whether Washington's eagerness to offer quake relief in Indonesia is geared...
- Research articles 2006-06-06
- Kabul car crash leads to anti-foreigner riots
- KABUL, Afghanistan -- Many Afghans welcome the help of U.S. and other foreign troops in trying to bring security after years of conflict. But there is still a strong undercurrent of resentment toward the outsiders, and the anger has been boiling over into violence. First it was allegations...
- Research articles 2006-05-30
- Internet Censorship Reflects China's Changing Attitude About Economic Reform, Duke Expert Says.
- Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 16 AScribe Newswire -- Efforts to restrict information on the Internet and other media reflect the Chinese government's fear of unrest among people left behind by China's economic boom, a Duke University expert on the Chinese media...
- Research articles 2006-02-16
- Russian hostage town divided by grief and money
- BESLAN, Russia AFP — Money, cars and toys, new schools and foreign vacations -- this Russian Caucasus town has been flooded with gifts since it was devastated by a mass hostage-taking one year ago. Yet Beslan is as far as it has ever been from coming to terms with what...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- Using Analogies: A Thinking Skill
- Using Analogies: A Thinking SkillAnalogies are very helpful, but be careful...If you use an analogy that you don't think through thoroughly first you may end up confusing your audience and mixing your message. Make sure to highlight the most important simlarities and discount all other aspects of the analogy.Simple...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-10
- The fever swamps of Kansas: a leftist tries to make sense of grassroots conservatism
- What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, by Thomas Frank, New York: Metropolitan Books, 306 pages, $24 A specter once haunted the Great Plains of America: the specter of populism. The agrarian radicals of the People's Party carried Kansas in the election of 1892--the...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Rumsfeld’s Rules Revisited
- Shortly after Donald Rumsfeld was appointed Secretary of Defense, the Department of Defense Web site posted a list of "Rumsfeld's Rules" for "government, business and life." The rules, which the new Secretary had begun touting in the mid-1970s, while serving as chief of staff for President Gerald Ford, were frequently...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
- Evening Standard, London, Anthony Hilton Column.
- By Anthony Hilton, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 15--SAPPING ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT: Chancellor Gordon Brown's normally-deft political touch may have let him down in the run-up to this week's Budget. In leaking to the Press as part of the...
- Research articles 2004-03-15
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