April 22, 2002 -- President Bush has declared the fourth week of April to be National Volunteer Week. This is a follow-up to his call for al
February 2, 2004 -- Given the fact that the title of director Denys Arcand's previous film was The Decline of the American Empire, that his
"Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value judgments. Man's profound need of art lies in the fact
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.....
December 17, 2004 -- Christmas is a season of beautiful lights, parties, gifts, food, family, friends, songs, and sentiments. Among the
Greg Hitt and Jeanne Cummings wrote on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (September 26, 2001): "In just two weeks, the terrorist....
Let’s imagine a woman who is getting pressure from some obnoxious sleazeball stud to cheat on her husband and commit adultery. She’s tempted
George Washington unfortunately has become a cliché. For an older generation, he was too often treated as such a mythic figure that it was..
We can always count on the French to show us how holding the wrong moral values and following the wrong economic policies will produce a...
The severe winter snows and spring flooding in much of the country have yielded this summer's bumper crop of mosquitoes that carry the
September 6, 2005 -- What could be a friendlier or more welcoming place than Hawaii, America's 50th state? If S-147, the Native Hawaiian
The final figures are in. According to Isabelle Dubois-Costes of General Funeral Services in France, the death toll in the country's summer
January 1, 2001 -- "Is civilization really going down the tube?" asked New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman in an article entitled...
October 10, 2005 -- Many critics argue that Christopher Columbus gave us a devil's bargain. In October 1492, that Italian explorer, working
we celebrate the creation of the United States of America. Our birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence, reads, "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal.
She was born on February 2, 1905, in Russia. At the age of nine, she decided she wanted to become a writer. As a teenager, she lived through
Faced with the high costs of malpractice insurance and bogus lawsuits, plus onerous government regulations and mountains of bureaucratic....
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Many critics argue that Christopher Columbus gave us a devil's bargain. In October 1492, that Italian explorer, working for Spain, opened...
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