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A tribute to the brash confections our car makers offered the world during a decade when not one American in a thousand had even heard the name Toyota

Sociologists continue to be vexed by the pathology of urban violence: Why is it so random, so fierce, so easily triggered? One answer may be found in this nation's Southern past.

Was he really the first? If he sailed for Spain, why do Italians make such a fuss about his birthday? How come America isn't named for him? Why is he being called a villain now?

It has always been politics as usual.