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1. பொன்ஸ் | 11:12 முப இல் மே 30, 2007 | மறுமொழி

   என்ன விசயம்?

2. bsubra | 2:15 பிப இல் மே 30, 2007 | மறுமொழி

   🙂

   நூலகத்தில் முன்பதிவு செய்ய சில பரிந்துரைகளை ‘கவனிக்கவேன்டியவை’ என்று முடிச்சாகப் போட்டு வைக்கும் காரியந்தான் 🙂

3. பத்மா அர்விந்த் | 4:35 பிப இல் மே 30, 2007 | மறுமொழி

   I thought it is a wish list for a birthday present.

4. bsubra | 7:50 பிப இல் மே 31, 2007 | மறுமொழி

   உங்க பின்னூட்டத்தைக் காட்டியவுடன் மனைவியிடம் வந்த காமென்ட் ‘வீட்டில் உதை விழும்’ என்று ரிப்ளை பண்ணுங்க 😉

5. bsubra | 3:16 பிப இல் ஜூன் 1, 2007 | மறுமொழி

   C-SPAN2’s Book TV:
   June 2nd Saturday 9 PM,
   June 3rd Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM ET
   
   Presidential historian Michael Beschloss explores the courage and fortitude that shape American Presidencies. From George Washington’s decision to make peace with England to Ronald Reagan’s meetings to end the Cold War; Mr. Beschloss examines the tough decisions that define the men who have held the Presidency. Beschloss discusses his new book, Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789 – 1989, with Alexis Simendinger, White House Correspondent for the National Journal.

6. bsubra | 3:37 பிப இல் ஜூன் 1, 2007 | மறுமொழி

   Book review from Boston Globe:
   Looking back at presidential courage and folly – The Boston Globe

   Historians will judge whether our current president’s war policy and the attendant plunge in his popularity will be recalled as a profile in courage or folly. “Presidential Courage” is an engaging reminder that unpopular presidential acts are not necessarily wrong-headed ones. Beschloss’s rundown of nine presidents who defied public or party to pursue the national interest has little new for those versed in history. Sadly, many people aren’t, and this is a breezy and fun (if not exceptionally literary) survey.

   Beschloss sidesteps hero worship, acknowledging presidents’ mistakes even in their moments of courage. Andrew Jackson killed the national bank, a forerunner of the Federal Reserve, in the face of corrupt behavior by the bank’s president. But Jackson, who’d flunk high school economics today, failed to put in place a more honest central bank to provide sound currency, sentencing generations of Americans to economic downturns that might have been mitigated.

   Two of these case studies resonate in the din of current events. It is one of history’s ironies that Harry Truman, who privately used anti-Semitic slurs, officially recognized the new state of Israel in about the time it takes most of us to dress and brush our teeth. Today, disapproval of Israeli treatment of Palestinians reaches many quarters in the United States and Europe, tingeing some of the discussion with anti-Jewish prejudice. Truman’s recognition of Israel in the election year of 1948 was marbled with political calculation, but in the end it was principle — his longstanding admiration for Wilsonian human rights and his belief that a Jewish state, after the Holocaust, was a logical extension — that guided his decision.

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