Remembering history to question future war plans
Guido H. Stempel III cites Vietnam's early adviser surge to warn against rapid Middle East troop buildups. He recalls 58,000 American deaths over 15 years and Oklahoma City’s 1995 attack by two Americans, arguing terrorism and school shootings persist even if ISIS fades.
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Middle East
Vietnam
Eisenhower
ISIS
Washington
Oklahoma City
Timothy McVeigh
Terry Nichols
Washington legislators contact details summary
Sen Sherrod Brown address at 713 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510 and phone 202 224 2315 plus website brown senate gov. Sen Rob Portman 524 Hart phone 202 224 3353 and site portman senate gov. Rep Steve Stivers 1007 Longworth HOB Washington DC 20515 phone 202 225 2015 and site stivers house gov. Rep Bill Johnson 1710 Longworth HOB phone 202 225 5705 and site billjohnson house gov.
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Sen
Sherrod Brown
Hart Senate
Washington, DC
Brown
Senate
Rob Portman
Portman
Steve Stivers
Longworth
Washington
D.C
Stivers
Bill Johnson
Washington, D.C
Billjohnson
House
America’s drunk history in the nation’s story
An essay argues alcohol shaped American history from the Pilgrims to Lincoln and Kennedy. It notes families damaged by drink, questions about Secret Service alertness, and social roles of drinking, mentioning Abigail Adams and Susan Cheever’s works.
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Cape Cod
King James
Virginia
William Bradford
Plymouth Bay
Abigail Smith Adams
John Adams
William Smith
Charles
Strobe Talbott
Union
Confederacy
Texas
Lincoln
Grant
John F. Kennedy
Secret Service
Dallas
Earl Warren
James Rowley
Warren
Lee Harvey Oswald
Texas School Book Depository
Susan Cheever
America
Four bold ideas to cut university costs and boost value
U S universities face rising costs while outcomes lag and debt grows. The piece argues for four reforms: cap administrative spending, run campuses year round, shift teaching loads toward productive research, and replace broad general education with cost effective, tech enhanced courses. It notes cultural resistance from faculty and administrators and cites Delta Cost Project data and examples from George Washington University Harvard and Maryland.
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United States
Carol Twigg
National Center For Academic Transformation
The
American University
Richard Vedder
Ohio University
Center For
Vedder
Delta Cost Project
George Washington University
Stephen Trachtenberg
American Council of Trustees and Alumni
Mason
Peter Stearns
Page Smith
University of California
Harvard
University of Maryland
Brit Kirwan
Maryland
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