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...interview with TIME's Rebecca Myers, Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, puts in perspective the political firestorm surrounding Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...outside world of any Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. Hu's predecessor Jiang Zemin spent his early years in Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city, studied in the Soviet Union and reveled in his trips overseas; he was proud of his ability to recite from memory chunks of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. By contrast, Hu studied only in China and spent much of his career in its remote, impoverished western provinces. Jiang "liked to make jokes" with his foreign hosts, says Chu Shulong, a professor at Beijing's Tsinghua University. "Hu doesn't make jokes. He's pretty practical...
...right. They held that the smartest of men had the tendency to become the most depressed. Melancholia, the Greek term for “black bile,” was said to foster pensively intellectual thinkers. And in history, so many great leaders have been depressive or unpleasant. Abraham Lincoln’s melancholia often led him to “weep in public and cite maudlin poetry”, according to Lincoln biographer Joshua Shenk ’93, also a Crimson editor. He considered suicide as a young man and growing older, he saw the world as governed...
...protect Missouri from the lurking threat of…wait for it…St. Louis unionists. That’s right. The people of St. Louis are about to have their will abrogated by a board set up to protect the Confederacy from rabble-rousing supporters of Abraham Lincoln. Though much has changed in the last 144 years, a large part of St. Louis’s charter can still be traced to the political situation at the outbreak of the Civil War, when its large population of anti-slavery German immigrants—the mid-19th century equivalent...
...happily working on a self-described “little comedy about a disgruntled photojournalist at a low-budget paper.” He says he doesn’t know where it will go, but doesn’t care much.Ryan J. “Trini” Abraham ’06 saw his last semester at Harvard as a chance to make strides in a field he’d only dabbled in before now. He has added the Winthrop House screenwriting seminar to his five-class courseload.“I never intended...