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While many Americans are familiar with the histories of slavery and Jim Crow, most don't understand how the rules of those eras undergird today's economy, reproducing the same racial inequities 150 years after the end of enslavement and 50 years after the banning of Jim Crow segregation laws.

At that time, just a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, John Paul underscored the Christian roots that undergird European culture and society and made an impassioned appeal for freedom of conscience and religious liberty.

What are the strategies that undergird successful comebacks?

However, the report is of negligible value to the policy debate over Connecticut school finance because it provides little or no support for any of the foundational claims that undergird its proffered solutions.

This is not a "how-to-do-it book." Yet in a most fundamental way, it addresses ideas and issues that should undergird all of our teaching.

The second part, to Ligeti's Violin Concerto, uses his melodies to undergird Armitage's renderings of the disconnections of modern life.

Have You Heard finds her and the band (celebrating their 10th year as a unit in 2006) in impossibly tight shape, blazing through the locomotive, churchy title track and seamlessly shifting gears to the steamy, organ-driven "22 Hours" and back to the urgent, sexy James Brown-flavored funk of "Didn't I Tell You." Vocalist Judith Casselberry (also known from the duo Casselberry-DuPree) and drummer Robert "Chicken" Burke complement each other and undergird Reagon's conversation with the listener to a degree that the softest moments contain the intensity of the most deliberate solos and breakdowns.

These themes include community representation and stakeholder issues; the psychology of criminal shame; the significance of the values of respect, humility and wonder that undergird restorative justice; and examples of new practices, such as defense based victim outreach.

Claude Shannon, the author of theories that undergird modern computers and the Internet, and Edward Throp, a mathematics professor, are accomplished academics who nevertheless made their reputations by beating the odds.

Even fans of the policies that undergird much of Blackmun's jurisprudence may be forgiven for asking: Did he strike the right balance between head and heart?

Basic civil liberties undergird our system of representative democracy and many of the key provisions of the USA Patriot Act of 2001 undermine them.

Bush's policies and the motives that appear to undergird them.