Reality for blacks in the United States has always been one of seeming paradox
BBC News: Zambia Air Accident
Phil Lemba, a top manager at Proflight, said he was happy that all the passengers had arrived safely.
A Comparative Guid to Russia’s Use of Force
force is meant for coercion rather than conquest
A Comparitive Guide to Russia’s Use of Force: Measure Twice, Invaide Once
Moscow has used just enough force to get the policy job done, but not more.
Rasputin: full of ecstasy and fire
He was indifferent to money, generous with his time and energy, interested in all kinds of people, committed to a vision of social justice, and, for his milieu, unusually tolerant of ethnic, religious and even sexual difference.
Rasputin: full of ecstasy and fire
Although the international press speculated that Rasputin lent a hand in Russia’s slide to war in 1914, in fact he argued strongly against joining hostilities, and pacifism was an admirable constant in his world view. Here, as when he urged the Tsar in 1916 to make popular well-being his highest priority, Rasputin was quite often ignored when he gave good advice.
Rasputin: full of ecstasy and fire
Problem with quotation marks? “miraculous”
But the causes of Rasputin’s success also lie within the man himself. He may not have possessed supernatural powers, but he did have a compelling aura of sympathy, insight, vitality and inner strength. His “miraculous” healing of the haemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei can readily be explained as the power of calming words delivered at just the right moment in just the right tone.
A Comparitive Guide to Russia’s Use of Force: Measure Twice, Invaide Once
I explore how Russia changes facts on the ground, compels its adversaries, and achieves much of this on the cheap. The goal is to examine Russian use of force and draw lessons for an era when American use of power must become judicious, timely, and better married to something that resembles political objectives.
Industrial Revolution Comparisons Aren’t Comforting
English real wages may have fallen about 10 percent from 1770 to 1810, a 40-year period. Clark also estimates that it took 60 to 70 years of transition, after the onset of industrialization, for English workers to see sustained real wage gains at all.
Power doesn’t always corrupt ..
Power doesn’t always corrupt, and you can see it in the case of, for example, Al Smith or Sam Rayburn. There, power cleanses. But what power always does is reveal, because when you’re climbing, you have to conceal from people what it is you’re really willing to do, what it is you want to do. But once you get enough power, once you’re there, where you wanted to be all along, then you can see what the protagonist wanted to do all along, because now he’s doing it.