British Prof Arrested; Jaywalking in Ga.

Police say a British historian was handcuffed, thrown to the ground and jailed because he refused to obey a uniformed officer's order to use a crosswalk and wouldn't show identification.

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Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade. More Articles

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The time, in other words, is ripe for a book like "The Case for God," which wraps a rebuke to the more militant sort of atheism in an engaging survey of Western religious thought.

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Victor posed a thought povoking question, "Will the battle over health care reform be Barack Obama's defining moment?" He did not think so, " don't bet on it."

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Future historians rummaging through the archives of the Washington Monthly might stumble upon a chilling article about a coming "financial conflagration … [E]very taxpayer in the country is on the line." The author was not some alarmist wacko, but a U.S. senator.

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Timed for Presidents Day 2009, C-SPAN today releases the results of its second Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, in which a cross-section of 65 presidential historians ranked the 42 former occupants of the White House on ten attributes of leadership.

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Author of more than 20 books and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Schlesinger helped define and defend mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and beyond.

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When David Rattray told a story, people listened.

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