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Thirty-odd years ago, in between college and law school, I spent a summer as a reporter at the Atlanta Journal. For three weeks, I was assigned to the police beat. Each morning I’d arrive at the station house about 6 o’clock and go through the reports of the previous night’s calls, to decide which ones looked newsworthy. If I needed more information, I’d go find it. My editor upbraided me only once: when I interviewed the department spokesman rather than one of the officers.
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Before embarking on a dangerous Brazilian expedition in 1914, Theodore Roosevelt expressed no fear of dying.
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Former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman called strategist Karl Rove “yesterday’s ballgame” as he urged his party to shun political tactics in favor of ideas on improving government.
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When President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the biggest question he’ll face will be how to get an ambitious second-term agenda through a divided Congress.
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Since the financial collapse of 2008, the advocates of regulation and the supporters of competition (via breaking up the banks) have echoed a debate that took place 100 years ago.
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The Norwegian munitions maker whose rifles were used by Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders during the 1898 Spanish-American War is proving the best U.S. government contractor for investors.
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Nassau is among the nation’s wealthiest counties -- and the richest in New York -- as measured by per capita income.
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Presidents who enjoy successful second terms usually pull fresh thinking into their inner circles and maintain close working relations with Congress. Barack Obama has shown little inclination to do either.
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As the 19th century wound down, the industrialization of the U.S., by then the world's largest and most productive economy, was piling up fortunes of unprecedented size.
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Widespread U.S. unhappiness with the government would seem to call for a blockbuster election, such as the one we had exactly a century ago, when both candidates offered sweeping plans for public renewal.
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