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Any Lessons from Virginia Tech? Richard E. Vatz , Lee S. Weinberg
Category: Psychology Published: July 2007
"The ultimate frustration engendered by a mass murderer is that there are no fail-safe methods to ensure that a similar catastrophe or a worse one will not occur."
 
Benedict Arnold Crippled in Battle Palmer Dave
Category: Profiles in History Published: July 2007
Having been wounded twice and fated to be an invalid for the rest of his life, he started turning his attention away from further military assignments. Poison may have stopped oozing from his leg, but his heart remained full of rancor.
 
Dazzled from Port Clyde to Paris
Category: Museums Today Published: July 2007
"In [Barbara Ernst] Prey's paintings, our imaginations are enticed not only by the scenes themselves, but by the exquisitely wrought details that animate the compositions."
 
Fearing the New and Improved Hillary Clinton Bay Buchanan
Category: National Affairs Published: July 2007
"[We are] witnessing a carefully planned and professional orchestrated transformation of an unprincipled left-wing politician who will let nothing, not even her deepest-held beliefs, stand in the way of becoming first woman elected president of the U.S."
 
Happy Anniversary to Some Very Special Artists
Category: Museums Today Published: July 2007
The Muscular Dystrophy Association Art Collection provides vivid proof that the ability to create simply cannot be quelled, no matter what the physical limitations.
 
How Kit Carson Helped Tame the West Gerald F. Kreyche
Category: USA Yesterday Published: July 2007
The legendary explorer and mountain man--who could neither read nor write, yet was fluent in a number of languages--provides historians with an interesting paradox: a daring and fearless individual who was both friend and foe to Native Americans.
 
Is There Any Way Out? Harold E. Rogers Jr.
Category: American Thought Published: July 2007
". . . A hastier withdrawal and a less-than-perfect political solution than originally planned for may turn out to be the only way to extricate the nation from this quagmire [in Iraq]."
 
John Adams and the Pursuit of Happiness David McCullough
Category: Profiles in History Published: July 2007
He put Washington in nomination to become the commander in chief of the Continental Army; chose Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence; placed John Marshall on the Supreme Court. If he had done nothing else, he would be someone we should know.
 
Learning from the Management Style of "The Great Communicator" Murray Weidenbaum
Category: Profiles in History Published: July 2007
During his eight years in the White House, Ronald Reagan "did not try to micromanage the decisionmaking within each of the agencies, but held his appointees accountable for the results."
 
Marginalizing the Middle Class Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Literary Scene Published: July 2007
Cable TV heavyweight Lou Dobbs lambasts big government and big business for stripping hardworking Americans of their money and dignity.
 
Remembering the Summer of Love
Category: Museums Today Published: July 2007
Psychedelic art, distinguished by its use of exhuberant color, ornamental forms, and formally complex, obsessively detailed compositions, represented expanded or altered states of consciousness induced by music, light, meditation, & hallucinogenic drugs.
 
Shaking Off the Shadow of Ovarian Cancer Diana Klebanow
Category: Medicine & Health Published: July 2007
"[The surgeon] calmly advised me to have my ovaries removed--a procedure known as a prophylactic oophorectomy. It could be done by laparoscopy. [It] usually takes about 70 minutes. . . . I started to feel numb when he spoke to me."
 
The Character of George Washington Richard Brookhiser
Category: Profiles in History Published: July 2007
"Washington made a bet with his life that the American people could bear the burden and responsibility of living in freedom. That bet is on the table for every generation. The completion of Washington's character, then, always rests with us."
 
The Legacy of Lafayette Nicholas Dungan
Category: Profiles in History Published: July 2007
He certainly was the most dashing Frenchman to have landed on America's shores. The Marquis de Lafayette was tall, handsome, noble, and rich--and wanted nothing more than to fight for the colonists' cause.
 
The Many Faces of Joan of Arc
Category: Museums Today Published: July 2007
"Not long after her death, literary and visual representations of [this French heroine] began to circulate widely and set important precedents for how she would be portrayed in the centuries to come."
 
Why Kidnap Victims and Battered Women May Be So Slow to Escape Katherine Van Wormer
Category: Psychology Published: July 2007
"The feeling that one has no control is key to behavior that may appear unduly submissive and strangely loyal."