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A Diplomat Who Loves The Really Tough Jobs

with George P. Shultzvia Washington Post
Thursday, January 11, 2007

On April 18, 1983, Ryan Crocker was in his office at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, with its spectacular view overlooking the Mediterranean...

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Steve and Al

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Holman Jenkins finds it strange that Al Gore is the protector of Steve Jobs...

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Idea Man

with John Raisianvia San Jose Magazine
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Hoover Institution Director John Raisian featured - to view online, please turn to the table of contents and select the article on page 74.

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No Hedgehog

with Seymour Martin Lipsetvia Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Many years ago, Seymour Martin Lipset, the eminent political sociologist who died last week at age 84, startled me, his student, with a casual remark...

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Rethinking Twentieth-Century History

with Niall Fergusonvia California Literary Review
Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Niall Ferguson is hot—about as hot as a historian can get...

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Pelosi's new image as Italian Catholic mom -- more than a 'San Francisco liberal'

with Bill Whalenvia San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, January 7, 2007

Quite a makeover for newly sworn House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as her national image morphed from leader of the San Francisco liberal elite to Italian Catholic mom from Baltimore...

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Encouraging More Reality in Economics

with Milton Friedmanvia New York Times
Saturday, January 6, 2007

The annual meeting of the American Economic Association, which opened here on Friday, is usually a pretty esoteric affair...

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Influential social scientist Lipset dies

with Seymour Martin Lipsetvia Associated Press
Thursday, January 4, 2007

Seymour Martin Lipset, an influential social scientist interested in the peculiarities of U.S. political culture, has died...

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Political Scientist Seymour Lipset, 84; Studied Democracy and U.S. Culture

with Seymour Martin Lipset, Larry Diamondvia Washington Post
Thursday, January 4, 2007

Seymour Martin Lipset, 84, a leading scholar of democracy and one of the most influential social scientists of the past half-century, died Dec. 31 at Virginia Hospital Center of complications of a stroke...

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Seymour Lipset, 84, Dean of Political Sociology

with Seymour Martin Lipsetvia New York Sun
Thursday, January 4, 2007

Seymour Martin Lipset, who died Monday at 84, was among the most important sociologists of his generation and the author or editor of 50 books, many of them concerned with democracy and American exceptionalism...

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The Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict examines how knowledge of past military operations can influence contemporary public policy decisions concerning current conflicts.