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Organized Labor
O RGANIZEDL ABOR Elizabeth McKillen An oft-quoted blue collar worker, questioned about international issues by pollsters in the 1940s, quipped: "Foreign Affairs! That's for people who don't have to work for a living." Given the complexity of ... Read more |
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David Banner
David BannerRap musician, music producer Termed "a thug intellectual in a world of crunk" by the Miami New Times, Mississippi rapper David Banner is an artist whose work is rife with contrasts and contradictions. He has been second to none when it comes to exploiting the raunchy and violent themes... Read more |
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James Lane Allen
James Lane Allen 1849-1925, American novelist, b. Lexington, Kentucky. Among his stylized, "genteel" novels set in his native region are A Kentucky Cardinal (1894), Aftermath (1895), and The Choir Invisible (1897).... Read more |
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Exclusion Crisis
EXCLUSION CRISIS EXCLUSION CRISIS. Exclusion Crisis was the name given to the crisis over the succession that developed in England in the aftermath of Titus Oates's revelations in the summer of 1678 of a "popish plot" to murder Charles II (ruled 1660 |
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Mutual Security Act of 1951
Mutual Security Act (1951) Lynne K. Zusman and Neil S. Helfand In the aftermath of World War II, a redistribution of military and economic power left two supreme powers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The remaining world order consisted of the war torn nations of the European... Read more |
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Globalization
G LOBALIZATION Thomas W. Zeiler Globalization became a buzzword following the end of the Cold War, but the phenomenon has long been a factor in the foreign relations of the United States and has deep roots in history. To the extent that it meant the... Read more |
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Servitude
Servitude SLAVERY INDENTURE DEBT SERVITUDE SERFDOM PRISON LABOR CONSCRIPTION OR CORVÉE ETHNIC OR LINEAGE SERVITUDE THE AFTERMATH OF SERVITUDE BIBLIOGRAPHY Servitude is a relationship between two people in which one person, the servant, has to work for the benefit of another... Read more |
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Mexican Revolution
Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) PORFIRIO DÍAZ FRANCISCO MADERO VICTORIANO HUERTA 1917 MEXICAN CONSTITUTION AFTERMATHS BIBLIOGRAPHY Scholars have long debated whether the Mexican Revolution was a social revolution, a civil war, a nationalist movement, a struggle for unrealized liberal... Read more |
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Jeane Dixon
P ROPHETS ANDD IVINERS T housands of years before the contemporary era, wise men and women listened while murmuring springs and streams spoke to them of what was to be, and they looked through the brilliance of precious stones into the world of... Read more |
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Postcolonialism
POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES. Postcolonial studies designates a broad, multidisciplinary field of study that includes practitioners from literary, cultural, and media studies, history, geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and political economy. Postcolonial studies is the analysis... Read more |
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Political Feature: Thai Policy Toward Myanmar Refugees Backfires in Hostage...
...the coverage of the aftermath of the hostage crisis. A little retrospect...Bangkok, taking 38 people hostage and trapping dozens...compound. Then, the hostages were freed unharmed...to which the hospital hostage takers belonged. The...and ... |
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A chance of peace? The conflict in Chechnya.(Is there a chance of peace in...
...better world? In the aftermath of the Moscow hostage crisis, Chechnya may...exile Though cramped, living conditions are not so...theatre and its audience hostage last month. There are...seems to be using the hostage crisis to get more ... |
 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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BENGALS PRE-EMPT NEW NBC LINEUP.(Living)
...Serial changes: ABC has put serial hostage drama "The Nine" on "hiatus...The Nine," following the aftermath of a hostage crisis involving nine survivors...Jericho," the drama about the aftermath of a nuclear explosion near a... |
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'THE NINE' MAKES FOR COMPELLING TV.(Living)
...series of the fall. It's about the riveting aftermath of a 52-hour hostage situation in which the captives are put through...this fall driven so well by its characters. The hostage experience brings out their guilty insecurities... |
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Dexter Actress Julie Benz to Star in Lifetime Movie Network's Held Hostage.
...original movie, Held Hostage. Held Hostage is an...the cast. About Held Hostage: Ripped from the headlines...masked gunmen, held hostage for 14 hours and forced...midst of the traumatic aftermath the tactical criminal...yourself and ... |
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Israeli offer on hostages expected in Geneva
...comprehensive, two-stage hostage-prisoner exchange...Lebanon war and its aftermath. If Perez de Cuellar...American and British hostages held by extremists...said the three living servicemen are...POWs and Western hostages that they ... |
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Four Hostages Released Unharmed in Haiti
...said Saturday.Two hostages were released Friday...been working to win the hostages' release, but it was...comment.Bosc said the hostages were held in Cite Soleil...have flourished in the aftermath of the rebellion that...to 200,000 people ... |
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ECHOES OF ATTICA ; FAMILIES OF CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS HELD HOSTAGE DURING THE...
...employees killed or taken hostage at Attica never had the...have been treated in the aftermath is horrific," Miller...civilian employees held hostage during the Attica Correctional...corrections officer taken hostage for four days. "It...Stockholm is 54, ... |
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Messy French analysis of Iraq hostage crisis Politicus
...fundamentalists who held him hostage for four months in Iraq...21. Yet rather than living a self-celebratory...France has brought to the aftermath of the war dismissing...intermediaries to free the hostages. But their confused...Julia of putting the ... |
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HK government promises to spare no effort in assisting hostage families
...no effort in assisting hostage families HONG KONG...no effort in assisting hostage families. A team of...government would help hostage families to overcome...thousand Filipino now living or working in Hong Kong...Kong to deal with the ... |
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