Open door attitude fuels Southern Illinois growth
PAT BAUER reflects on memories from a cluttered attic and a shift from a despairing view of Southern Illinois to a proactive, educated future. She cites regional cooperation among economic groups, telecom and healthcare, strong education at community colleges and SIU, and lifelong learning as keys to prosperity led by local thinkers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Graham Bell
Southern
Illinois
SIU
Southern Illinois
Pat Bauer
Benton
Taxi to the Dark Side film exposes torture and policy
Amy Goodman reports on the Oscar win for Taxi to the Dark Side director Alex Gibney. The documentary traces Dilawar’s death at Bagram and frames a critique of US interrogation policy from Bush through Yoo. It notes Discovery Channel’s refusal to air the film amid corporate media moves.
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Dick Cheney
NBC
Meet the Press
George Bush
Cheney
Alex Gibney
Dilawar
U.S
Bagram Air Base
United States
Gibney
Bush
Donald Rumsfeld
University of California Berkeley
John Yoo
Academy
Dhc
Discovery Channel
Discovery
John Malone
Liberty Media
Malone
News Corp
Rupert Murdoch
Murdoch
Directv
Buckley the Enfant Terrible and His Political Mark
William F. Buckley is profiled as a provocative figure whose early shock value helped shape conservative ideas. The piece traces Buckley’s impact from God and Man at Yale through critiques of liberal elites, his role in National Review, support for Goldwater as a pathway to Reagan, and his later stance against liberal Republicans including Lowell Weicker Jr. and Joe Lieberman, with notes on his broader influence in American political discourse.
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Illiam F. Buckley
Ronald Reagan
Buckley
New York
Boston
Harvard
God
Man
Yale
Frank Ashburn
Saturday Review
McGeorge Bundy
Atlantic Monthly
McCarthy
L. Brent Bozell
Venona
Democratic Party
Joe McCarthy
National Review
Dwight Eisenhower
Ike
Richard Nixon
Barry Goldwater
Bozell
Goldwater
Reagan
Barry
Lowell P. Weicker Jr
Joe Lieberman
Weicker
Senate
Lowell Weicker
Lieberman
Leonard Bernstein
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Bauer
Amy
Goodman
Pen
Traq
William F. Buckley
A.L.P., Enfant Terrible
Coulter
Rit
Pilegierelabacom
U.S. Navy
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