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Cohen said successful wartime leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill maintained close day-to-day supervision over the military, contrary to conventional wisdom that suggests the fighting should be left to military professionals...

Author: By William C. Martin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Argues For Strong President During Wartime | 11/20/2002 | See Source »

...theme hard. When John Sununu needed help in Nashua, N.H., and wanted Bush to touch down there, Rove BlackBerried the campaign strategist: "Can't do, will get back to you." Two days later, he had the First Lady there instead. The narrowcasting was so refined that Energy Secretary Spence Abraham, a former Michigan Senator, visited a Florida senior home in which half the residents hailed from his home state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2002: W. and the Boy Genius | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...along this old ideological fault line that the journalist Steven R. Weisman has assembled the narrative of The Great Tax Wars (Simon & Schuster; 419 pages), an absorbing history of the income tax. Weisman monitors the argument--which continues today--from the time that Abraham Lincoln first pushed through Congress an unprecedented tax on income in 1862 to pay the Union's immense war expenses, to the early 1940s, when a far larger conflict turned America into a nation of more or less uncomplaining income tax payers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pay Your Taxes | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

Kinkopf also has a family history of hockey in the Ivy League. Her older brother, Abraham, is a sophomore on the Harvard men’s team...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Freshman Class is a Chu-in to Contribute | 11/1/2002 | See Source »

...Abraham H. Foxman is national director of the Anti-Defamation League...

Author: By Abraham H. Foxman, | Title: Unmasking Anti-Semitism | 10/29/2002 | See Source »

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