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From Adam Goodheart’s “10 Days That Changed History” (The New York Times: 2 July 2006):
FEB. 15, 1933: The Wobbly Chair
It should have been an easy shot: five rounds at 25 feet. But the gunman, Giuseppe Zangara, an anarchist, lost his balance atop a wobbly chair, and instead of hitting President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, he fatally [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Steve Paulson’s “The disbeliever” (Salon: 7 July 2006):
In perhaps his most daring rhetorical gambit, Harris seeks to undermine religion by denouncing not just jihadis and fundamentalists, but moderates. “Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world,” he writes, “because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism [...]

Posted on July 18th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Salon:
Robert O. Paxton, a former professor of social sciences at Columbia University and longtime historian of the political movement, sets out to formulate a working definition in his new book, The Anatomy of Fascism. … Only at the end does Paxton reveal what he’s settled on as an acceptable definition. Here it is:
“… a [...]

Posted on November 29th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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