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 The Nation
The Nation is a weekly, left-of-center periodical devoted to politics and culture.
The Nation magazine claims it has lost money every year of operation and has a group of donors called the Nation Associates who give to the periodical beyond their annual subscription purchase.
Throughout the nation there is a rising call to create and uphold strong "moral" values in public policy decisions.
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 The Nation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nation magazine has lost money in all but three or four years of operation and is sustained by a group of over 25,000 donors called the Nation Associates who donate funds to the periodical above and beyond their annual subscription fees.
The Nation is a weekly leftist periodical devoted to politics and culture.
The Nation Washington Editor, David Corn broke the Valerie Plame leak scandal in the summer of 2003 in the pages of The Nation after noting that journalist Robert Novak's blowing of the spy's cover in a newspaper column could be a possible felony.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Nation   (732 words)

  
 The Nation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nation is a weekly leftist periodical devoted to politics and culture.
The Nation magazine has lost money in all but three or four years of operation and is sustained by a group of over 25,000 donors called the Nation Associates who donate funds to the periodical above and beyond their annual subscription fees.
The Nation Washington Editor, David Corn broke the Valerie Plame leak scandal in the summer of 2003 in the pages of The Nation after noting that journalist Robert Novak's blowing of the spy's cover in a newspaper column could be a possible felony.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Nation   (731 words)

  
 Batman TV Show, Green Hornet, Mr. Terrific, Captain Nice
As 1964 rolled around, National Periodical Publications (also known as DC Comics) was poised to make a momentous decision.
By the fall of '66, Batman was the number-one show in the nation but adult ratings had dropped to half what they once were.
Before long, every star in Hollywood lined up for an opportunity to be the costumed kook-of-the-week on the top show in the nation.
www.tvparty.com /fallbatman.html   (731 words)

  
 Nation Newspaper -- Recommendations and Resources
Most nations have at least one newspaper that circulates throughout the whole country: a national newspaper, as contrasted with a local newspaper serving a city or region.
The National Digital Newspaper Program is a project begun by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2004 to create a publically available digital archive of historically significant newspapers published in the United States between 1836 and 1922.
In the United States and Canada, there are few truly national newspapers, with the notable exceptions of ''USA Today'' in the United States and ''The Globe and Mail'' and ''The National Post'' in Canada.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/102/nation-newspaper.html   (804 words)

  
 Dissertations - Corporate monopoly in the South African print media: Implications for the alternative press with particular reference to New Nation
He brings together literary and political journalism (that is, the periodical press of the 19th Century particularly in England), the spread of new centres of sociability in the urban centres of early modern Europe, such as libraries, universities, learned and debating societies, salons and coffee houses as constitutions of the public sphere.
Dissertations - Corporate monopoly in the South African print media: Implications for the alternative press with particular reference to New Nation
This new sphere of communicative action developed, as he argues, because the rise of capitalism provided the new emergent political bourgeois class with both material resources and time, to create a network of institutions within civil society in which the new political force, and public opinion could come into existence (Golding, 1994:18).
www.und.ac.za /und/ccms/publications/dissertations/mpofu2.htm   (804 words)

  
 Anarres Books Catalog - The Raven
In contrast to other events in the 20th century such as the Spanish revolution of 1936 May 68 represents the only occasion when such an uprising occured in an advanced industrial nation.
We have copies of The Raven, a high quality anarchist periodical published quarterly by Freedom Press.
The current issue is Raven 43: Food, 96pp with a Australian Recommended Retail Price (RRP) of $10.60.
www.anarres.org.au /subjec16.htm   (808 words)

  
 Blogs: Online Periodical Publications Journalism Ethics - Law J-Log Journalism Blog
You'll realize quickly that this amendment may have been intended to institute a national principle for the future, but it also looked to the newborn nation's immediate future and fears concerning its ability to survive.
Not only did the Framers understand that Great Britain was not decisively defeated -- she still was uncontested on the seas and would prove, but too much later, her ability to mount another transoceanic offensive -- but factions were beginning to arise within the new government, thereby posing threats to freedom of thought and expression.
The people behind them collect information that is of interest to the public and publish it for the consumption, primarily, of a throng of avid Macintosh fans.
www.mallasch.com /journalism/article.php?sid=1237   (808 words)

  
 Talk:The Nation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One thing that seems worth noting is the accusation from some leftists that the periodical has slowly been drifting right since the Clinton years.
Does anybody know anything more about The Nation (like amount of money lost or revenue streams) that they can add?
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:The_Nation   (133 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Elias Boudinot (ca. 1804-1839)
Earlier in the spring of 1826 Boudinot had embarked on a national speaking tour to elicit financial, spiritual, and political support for the Cherokee Nation's continuing progress in the "arts of civilization." His pamphlet, "An Address to the Whites" (1826), was based on a speech he made in Philadelphia.
In the mid-1820s the Cherokee Nation was under enormous pressure from surrounding states, especially Georgia, to move to a territory west of the Mississippi River.
Boudinot pledged to print the official documents of the Nation and tracts on religion and temperance, as well as local and international news.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-626   (733 words)

  
 Louis Farrakhan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Farrakhan is currently the leader of the Nation of Islam and lives in Chicago, Illinois at the former home of Elijah Muhammad, near the campus of the University of Chicago.
Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933 in Bronx, New York), is the leader of the Nation of Islam.
The calming of Farrakhan's fiery rhetoric in recent years possibly signals a change of direction in the Nation of Islam, and may also be due as well to the seriousness of the advanced prostate cancer with which he was diagnosed years ago, but is evidently now in remission.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Farrakhan   (1645 words)

  
 snarkout: the locusts sang such a sweet melody
Brood X is the largest population of periodical cicadas to hit the eastern seaboard; the cicadas are entirely harmless and vulnerable to predators, so they've developed a unique strategy for ensuring that they survive to make the next generation of baby periodical cicadas.
Brood X is about to invade the nation's capital.
If they were called Barbarossa bugs and were released when the nation was in danger, maybe they and their brethren would get a little respect.
www.snarkout.org /archives/2004/04/16   (1645 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Elias Boudinot (ca. 1804-1839)
Earlier in the spring of 1826 Boudinot had embarked on a national speaking tour to elicit financial, spiritual, and political support for the Cherokee Nation's continuing progress in the "arts of civilization." His pamphlet, "An Address to the Whites" (1826), was based on a speech he made in Philadelphia.
Boudinot pledged to print the official documents of the Nation and tracts on religion and temperance, as well as local and international news.
But his opinions were at odds with those held by the majority of the Nation, including the General Council.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-626   (733 words)

  
 13169.txt
"The Tatler" was, if we except Defoe's "Weekly Review," the earliest literary periodical which, in the language of Scott, "had no small effect in fixing and refining the character of the English nation." Steele conducted his periodical under the name of Isaac Bickerstaff.
These contributions to the new "Tatler" are printed from the original periodical issue with the exception of No. 5, which is taken from the second edition of the reprint (1720), as no copy of the original issue has been met with.
The libel is repeated in the 59th and 63rd numbers of "The Tatler." Her correspondence with Norris was published in 1695, with the title, "Letters Concerning the Love of God".
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/3/1/6/13169/13169.txt   (15818 words)

  
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The main purpose of this report is to make an attempt of presenting the consistent policy of slaughters and massacres carried out by the Turkish authorities towards the Assyrian nation, observing identity and repetition with regard to the policy carried out towards the Armenian nation.
And as about this nation, which had 250 thousand victims, has been spoken much less, it is necessary to inform the world about it.” And as it was pointed by the Assyrian National Council secretary C. Korek d’Kerporani, according to the calculations done in 1922, the losses of his people were more than 270 thousand.
In November 1919 the periodical French Asia wrote, “the Assyrian massacres resembled the Armenian slaughters.
www.aas.net /Genocide_Lecture_Text.htm   (15818 words)

  
 The Nation, 03/26/1914 - Correspondence
Presents letters to the editor published in this issue of the periodical "The Nation." Reference to the letter related to government commissions of inquiry; Information on the death of the U.S. anthropologist, Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier.
...TO THE EDITOR ' THE- NATION: SIR: By the death of Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandolier, on Thursday, March 19, in- Madrid, Spain, American anthropology.' has...
Open the article in The Nation Digital Archive
www.archive.thenation.com /Summaries/v098i2543_12.htm   (2047 words)

  
 Farmland Preservation Report
Farmland Preservation Report has been hard at work since 1990, and is the periodical of choice for the nation's leading land conservation professionals.
Farmland Preservation Report - the nation's only independent news source covering the field - will help you keep up with how localities and states are protecting farmland from development.
Farmland Preservation Report is the most quoted, most referenced, most highly-rated and most in-demand publication of farmland preservation practitioners in the United States.
www.farmlandpreservationreport.com   (224 words)

  
 Èíôîðìàöèîííî-àíàëèòè÷åñêèé ìîëîäåæíûé öåíòð "Ñòðàòåãèÿ áóäóùåãî"
He evoked the continuity of the Thracians, the first and the second Bulgarian Empires, the legendary heroes (bagaturs)of the Middle Ages, the haidutins and finally the Renascence as the periodical manifestation of the regenerative potentials of the young generation.
The division of this unity, through internal discord and faction in Church, always led to the "alienation of the nation from the state", and ultimately to decline.
The main text of the booklet was also supporting the authoritarian project of "national reintegration," hailing the Germans for making it possible to create Greater-Bulgaria.
safety.spbstu.ru /IAMC/state/20031124anton.html   (224 words)

  
 Article by JD
It was written in response to an article by Edward Said titled The Clash of Ignorance in the October 22nd issue of America’s own The Nation (which I have never heard anyone refer to as the “Naggers,” though it’s not a bad nickname for that peevish periodical).
Until 1957 the paper’s official title was The New Statesman and Nation, and it was known around Fleet Street as the “Staggers and Naggers.”)
Chai is an honest man, and the story of Chinese philosophy is just as he has presented it: a starburst of intellectual activity in the fifth, fourth and third centuries B.C., followed by 2,200 years of nothing much at all.
www.olimu.com /webjournalism/Texts/Commentary/DreamingForWorld.htm   (1487 words)

  
 HISTORIC ATLASES OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA
The Geography Department at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, was the publisher of this periodical.
After becoming interested in landownership of properties in Indian Territory, he compiled and published two landownership atlases: Hastain's Township Plats of the Creek Nation (Hastain 1910), consisting of 149 maps, and Hastain's Township Plats of the Seminole Nation (Hastain 1913), containing 28 maps.
The documents were used by abstract and title firms, the legal profession, county clerks, the various administrative offices of the Creek, Seminole, Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes, land investors and speculators, and even the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
home.earthlink.net /~dawise/Atlas.htm   (1148 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: DynCorp
Private military contractors The Nation logo The Nation is a weekly leftist periodical devoted to politics and culture.
The United States Department of the Treasury is a Cabinet department, a treasury, of the United States government established by an Act of U.S. Congress in 1789 to manage the revenue of the United States government.
The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/DynCorp   (1810 words)

  
 Black Journalism Review Online
Goodman announced the expansion of her program at a Washington Peace rally March 8, and encouraged Posse Members of the Amy Goodman Nation to pressure station managers around the country to provide more airtime for the award-winning, unashamedly-leftist show which is now also a major source of on-air fundraising for the network's five stations.
A ceremony marking the stamps first day of issue was held during the National Convention of the Society of Professional Journalists Sept. 14.
Literally at the moment bombs were bursting in air over Baghdad, 'The Amy Goodman Nation,' progressive radio programming/production unit which has already taken control of the Pacifica Radio Network, practically seized complete control of the airwaves of local Pacifica-owned WPFW-FM.
www.blackjournalism.com   (462 words)

  
 From Donelaitis to Jablonskis
In 1911 in the first fascicle of the second volume of the periodical The Lithuanian Nation (Lietuviø tauta) Bûga published a study about Lithuanian names, which was also issued as a separate book in the same year.
Jonas Juðka was born in 1815 in Þarënai in the district of Telðiai and died in 1886.
Fridrichas Kurðaitis (Friedrich Kurschat) was born on the 24th of April, 1806, in Noragëliai in the district of Pakalnë, East Prussia.
www.lituanus.org /1982_1/82_1_05.htm   (462 words)

  
 974 NORTH ATLANTIC (ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, PA, NJ)
The Pequots in Southern New England : The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990) [Book: 974 A000 Ethnic]
Vermont Historical News and Notes (no publication data) [Periodical: 974.3 A000 Per]
Vermont Historical Society Proceedings (no publication data) [Periodical: 974.3 A000 Per]
www.gfo.org /library/catalog/974.htm   (15404 words)

  
 Negro Periodicals in the United States
The thrust of this monthly periodical was an appeal to the minds and conscience of the Nation.
Not only was the periodical appealing in format, but the contents displayed the works of some outstanding black artists publishing their creations in one solitary resource.
Words like racial hatred, discrimination, segregration, anti-semitism, facism and imperialism were part of the growing vernacular in the news of the day.
www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/library/historic.htm   (7898 words)

  
 UIowa Libraries Web
InfoHawk is the library gateway to information, providing access to library catalogs, periodical indexes and abstracts, electronic journals and books, reference materials, and many more web-based resources.
Recently the UI Law Library was ranked as one of the top five law libraries in the nation.
The University's site serves as a gateway to other library resources available within the state and nation.
www.lib.uiowa.edu   (152 words)

  
 Lesson Plan: Around the Pacific Rim
With this lesson, students will learn all about the region (beginning with the members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC) while conducting and reporting on individual "nation explorations."
Explore your nation's history in relation to the other Pacific Rim countries.
Use the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature and the Internet to find recent news stories involving your country of focus.
www.microsoft.com /Education/pacific.aspx   (1496 words)

  
 The News Group - Eastern US
News Group Eastern US The News Group-North America's second-largest periodical supplier, with more than 25% of the market- operates under The News Group banner throughout the southeastern, midwestern and western United States and Alaska and in every province, territory and region of Canada, where it is the only nation-wide publication wholesaler.
THE NEWS GROUP, L.P., a partnership formed in 1999 between The News Group and ETD KroMar in the southwestern U.S., expanded in the past 12 months to include Cowley Distributing, the Mountain and Plains Periodical Group and the North West News Co..
THE NEWS GROUP EAST AND MIDWEST US, based in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area; is the prime distributor of magazines, books, comics and newspapers in the seven southeastern states and the central Midwest - where in 1999 it achieved major market penetration, particularly in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
www.thenewsgroup.com /tng_eastern.shtml   (238 words)

  
 New Partisan - Articles - Eric Adler on England's Conservative Wars
And virtually all the principal organs of American conservative opinion—from large circulation newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post to smaller periodicals such as Commentary, National Review, The Weekly Standard, The New Criterion, The Public Interest, etc.—adhere to neo-conservative positions.
According to Gottfried, Pat Buchanan’s and Taki Theodoracopulos’ new periodical served as an enlightened rejoinder to the neo-conservatives who have hijacked the American right.
In the very same issue that contains Wakefield’s softball interview, James Delingpole contributes a scabrous attack on fair-weather isolationism entitled “Cursed are the Peaceniks.” In the May 15 number of the periodical, Toby Harnden excoriated American leftists who savor Iraqi casualties in hopes that their growing numbers will cause Bush to lose the upcoming election.
www.newpartisan.com /home/eric-adler-on-englands-conservative-wars.html   (1434 words)

  
 Louisiana Folklife: Recommended Reading
Italians, Lebanese, Vietnamese, and Louisiana Indians: Chitimacha, Coushatta, Tunica-Biloxi, Caddo, Choctaw Apache, Clifton Choctaw, Jena Band of Choctaw, and the United Houma Nation.
Periodical published by the Louisiana Folklife Society, Box
Red Shoes' People: A History of the Sovereign Nation of the Coushatta Tribe of
www.louisianafolklife.org /Resources/main_recommended_read.html   (601 words)

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