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The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game
It’s a perennial pastime to rate U.S. presidents on an all-time ranking: Certain presidents were “Great,” others were “Near-Great,” and so on down to “Failures” and “Unmitigated Disasters ” (OK, we made that last category up.) But as Alvin Felzenberg points out, there are many flaws with these rating systems. Despite reams of new historical information, the rankings never seem to change very much. They all favor a certain kind of president-those who tended to increase executive power. That aside, the idea of rating presidential performance on a simple linear scale is absurd. The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn’t) breaks presidential performance into easily understandable categories-character, vision, competence, foreign policy, economic policy, human rights, and legacy-and assesses, for each category, the best and worst. The result is a surprisingly fresh look at how the various presidents stack up against each other, with some of the “greats” coming off far worse than their supposedly mediocre colleagues. .
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History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus 1592
Together with the second report of Faustus, containing his appearances and the deeds of Wagner 1594. The Faust problem was not peculiar to the Christian era. The Jews had their Solomon and the Greeks their Prometheus, but it was only at the end of the Middle Ages, when the old world was in the melting pot, that there arose the most famous of all these legends, the most curious element in which is perhaps the fact that there was at the source of it an actual person..
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What We Deserved: Stories from a New York Life
"I read WHAT WE DESERVED in a couple of sittings; literally, couldn't put it down. This is my last book-jacket endorsement ever, and I'm delighted it's for a work of fiction that's the best I've read in years...touching, moving, wrenching, funny, clever, hilarious, pensive, insightful, and original in structure, pace and format. The book is eminently readable, with prose deceptively simple....Reading this, your heart will break or youll bust your gut laughing. The range is that vast and the book is that good."--Steve Dixon "Steven Schrader's assemblage of a mosaic of his brief memory snapshots adds up to a poignant, powerful, and funny book about growing up in New York City."--Isiah Sheffer, Director, NPR's SELECTED SHORTS.
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A Well-deserved Murder
Sergeant Peter Collins' cousin, journalist and photographer, Alan Piper, is living next door to the neighbours from Hell. They build a deck that overlooks his patio and monitor his every movement Under the cover of darkness they steal plants and building materials from his garden, but when his gate and gatepost disappear he calls in the police who advise him to put up a CCTV camera. Alan has a better idea. Mousy civil servant Kacy Howell is amazed to suddenly find herself the centre of attention at work and showered with unprompted gifts of flowers, chocolates and - discreetly wrapped sex toys. Her husband, George, is bewildered until a colleague shows him a pornographic magazine aimed at the amateur photographer.Before George finds out if the photos are real, Kacy is found battered to death on the decking that overlooks Alan's garden. Inspector Trevor Joseph and Sergeant Peter Collins find themselves wanting to look beyond the obvious suspect for a murder, which Kacy's neighbours have already Christened 'justifiable homocide'..
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Merecido premio en España.(Ana Gabriel, cantante; premios; grabación de sonido)(TT: Well-deserved award in Spain.)(TA: Ana Gabriel, singer; awards; sound recording): An article from: Semana
This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on October 21, 1999. The length of the article is 575 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Merecido premio en España.(Ana Gabriel, cantante; premios; grabación de sonido)(TT: Well-deserved award in Spain.)(TA: Ana Gabriel, singer; awards; sound recording) Author: El Duke Publication:Semana (Magazine/Journal) Date: October 21, 1999 Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc. Volume: 6 Issue: 347 Page: 7 Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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