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...such that Britain should not be subsumed into Europe. Secondly, Britain should not go back to pre-Thatcher levels of spending and taxation. TIME: Is it true you're obsessed with Napoleon? BLACK: Absolutely not. He was a great general, but I have more admiration for Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt. It's like all these stupid theories written about me that say I play with toy soldiers. That's a load of you know what. TIME: When can we expect Hollinger's stock to go up? BLACK: A lot of companies, such as the one you write for, have...
...Theodore Rex", the second volume of his Theodore Roosevelt biography (the first was his splendid "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt"), will have a first printing of over 200,000. Doris Kearns Goodwin, having already studied the Kennedys and the Franklin Roosevelts to handsome effect, is hard at work on Abraham Lincoln...
...putting on this radio show was fun. Otherwise, why do it? And the enjoyment the Mercury team had in doing a tough job superbly is everywhere audible to today?s listeners. The narrative tone varied from show to show, as in a well- chosen theater repertory. A stentorian "Abraham Lincoln" was followed by Schnitzler?s sad-gay "The Affairs of Anatol"; a jaunty Holmes-Moriarty saga gave way to "Hell on Ice," a docudrama of a disastrous North Pole expedition, and one of the most adroitly harrowing hours you could shiver through. Houseman, Welles and Howard Koch, who was hired...
...Abraham (a.k.a. Ibrahim) is considered a forefather to both Jews and Muslims, but his children continue to fight over his grave. The ancient West Bank city of Hebron, where according to tradition the Biblical prophet is buried, has long been an epicenter of Israeli-Palestinian violence. In 1929, the massacre of 67 Jews destroyed its tiny historic Jewish community. But four decades, later Jewish settlers began moving into Hebron after its capture by Israel. In 1994, a lone Jewish settler killed 29 Muslim worshippers at a local mosque. The Palestinian Authority took control of 80 percent of the city...
...nineteenth century doesn't figure in our current discussion, although there would doubtless be much to be learned if we were to compare and contrast the whiskers of John Brown, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses Grant, and Abraham Lincoln...