When future historians ask the question, “What the heck happened to the United States of America?” they will need only look to Heather Cox Richardson’s encapsulating phrase: the plunder of the public for private gain. Were I one of the future historians I would title my book, The Nation...
In 1982, seven years after General Franco died, Spain was just getting going as a modern democracy. All that people outside had heard about us as a country was to do with violence, death and repression. They thought we were backward and damaged. I was made junior minister for tourism and...
Complete Achilles Tendon Rupture after Levaquin for Sinus Infection March of 2004 I had a severe sinus infection and went through three rounds of Levaguin before it finally stopped. The last day of the prescription … Avalox For Sinus Infection Caused Left Achilles Tendonitis I was prescribed Avelo...
! 一个新的冒险 分享408 新概念英语吧 韩寒呃呃呃 第四册第一课寻找化石人Lesson 1 Finding fossil man We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. The...
If he had not got stabbed, his two major feats: cleansing saidin, and reforming the prison, would not have happened, and he would not have learned what he needed later to figure it out. As I remember it, Fain was directed to find those three in particular, he was compelled to, with...
I happened to be in the back seat at that time, and he was distracted and driving fast and didn’t notice the turn in the road. He slammed the brakes and roughly turned the wheel, which sent us sliding. And all I could think was,He overcorrected.” ...
When I first viewed Claude Vignon’sDavid with the Head of Goliathat the Blanton Museum I was struck by the effeminate disinterest of his version of David. Surely, a clever musician who just happened to be very skilled with the sling. ...
The firefighter became a local hero after saving a family from a burning building. Martyr A martyr is often sanctified or revered after death. In death, she became more than a person; she became a martyr and a symbol of hope. Hero A hero stands up for what is right, even when it's...
It didn’t happen for much of the Lions’ opener, but it happened when it mattered most. Detroit squandered a 14-point lead only to rally back with the final nine points for a victory in the most emphatic fashion. Stafford singing Motown blues again. Throughout his second return to ...
Maybe governments can contain such risks. After all, the “March madness” — as some journalists and traders now call it — has died down, and the losses have been relatively small to date compared with the previous bank shocks. I can go to dinner without constantly feeling the need to c...