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epub, pdf |eng | 1995-09-01 | Author:Noam Chomsky

3. The Summits38 In preparation for the Reagan-Gorbachev meetings at the Washington summit of December 1987, the news was carefully shaped to ensure that only proper thoughts would reach the ...
( Category: Democracy June 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:George Bush & Brent Scowcroft [Bush, George]

*See Chapter 9. *See Chapter 9, this page. *Yeltsin was indeed elected on May 29, as Gorbachev was on his way to Canada and the United States. CHAPTER 12 Summit ...
( Category: International & World Politics May 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Parker

Perryman was right about the economy. Texas is a big, highly diversified and urbanized economy. The drought would do powerful damage but alone could not stop the economy’s growth. But ...
( Category: State May 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:Ted Rall

Too Deep to Fail On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon, the deepest oil drill in the history of energy exploration, went up in a fireball, killing eleven workers. Two ...
( Category: National May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:Beattie, Kirk [Beattie, Kirk]

“On a lot of this stuff, the difference between Israelis and Palestinians, it’s like cowboys and Indians. You’re always going to root for the cowboys.” —former, longtime staffer for a ...
( Category: Legislative Branch May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Elaine Scarry

Chapter Three THE PLACE OF HABIT IN ACTS OF THINKING The rejection of procedures and constitutional guarantees, this book has so far suggested, comes from three sources: first, the belief ...
( Category: Leadership May 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Greg Muttitt [Muttitt, Greg]

Antiwar in Washington? The strength of the threat to Maliki was reinforced by the political dynamic on Capitol Hill in Washington, where moves made by the Democrats, whether consciously or ...
( Category: Political Science May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-16 | Author:Wendell Potter [Penniman, Wendell Potter and Nick]

Enter Big Food One enormous force distorting the debate on healthy eating is Big Food. The food and beverage industry, along with crop and food producing, processing, and sales companies, ...
( Category: United States May 6,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-04-29 | Author:Paul Krugman

PRESCRIPTION FOR FAILURE July 26, 2000 In denouncing President Clinton’s plan to extend Medicare coverage to prescription drugs, and in touting their own counterproposal, Republicans have rolled out the usual ...
( Category: Economic Policy April 30,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Greg Muttitt

Antiwar in Washington? The strength of the threat to Maliki was reinforced by the political dynamic on Capitol Hill in Washington, where moves made by the Democrats, whether consciously or ...
( Category: Political Science April 25,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Kate Andersen Brower

JACKIE SPOKE IN a childlike whisper of a voice (Kennedy’s sisters called her “the Deb” behind her back), but she was tough as nails and would cut people off if ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Brandus

Beyond changing the White House, Theodore Roosevelt changed the way in which Americans saw the presidency itself. It was seen, more than ever, as a center of great and unmatched ...
( Category: History & Theory April 23,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Sally Denton

On entering the long-sought valley of Zion, Mormon “Saints” like Jean Rio were greeted with the majestic sight of the Great Salt Lake. Always impressed by the physical grandeur of ...
( Category: Executive Branch April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Cory Booker

So let us not be petty when our cause is great. Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our Nation’s future is at stake. —JOHN F. KENNEDY In the early ...
( Category: Legislative Branch April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Lawrence Lessig [Lessig, Lawrence]

1. Making Government Small When Al Gore was vice president, his policy team had a proposal to deregulate the Internet. As a “network of networks,” the Internet lives atop other ...
( Category: Elections April 20,2016 )