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...Juniors Deepak Abraham and Gray Witcher joined sophomore Pete Karlen as Second Team All-Americans and occupied the second and third spots, respectively...
...injuries to Abraham and Patterson hurt Harvard's chances. The banged-up Crimson lost the Ivy League championship to Princeton in a 5-4 squeaker, but a healthier squad rebounded two weeks later to triumph...
...March 27, he and associate Peter O'Keefe sat around a small table in D.N.C. chairman Ed Rendell's office. With an alphabetical list of 150 names culled from McAuliffe's Rolodex, they focused on Clinton's biggest helpers of 1996. The first call went to Dan Abraham, chairman of Slim-Fast Foods Co. McAuliffe told him about the tribute and asked, "If the world blew up tomorrow, Danny, what can I put you down for?" Abraham promised to send a check for $500,000 the next...
...business. Thus Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 retired to Galena, Illinois, and demurely waited for November. William McKinley withdrew to his front porch in Ohio and ran the race in a rocking chair. The practice was popular with many of the whiskered forgettables nominated for the office between Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt...
True to its billing, there is hardly a page in Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream (Johnson Publishing Co.; 652 pages; $35) that won't rile Lincoln's defenders. To start with, says Bennett, Lincoln was a crude bigot who habitually used the N word and had an unquenchable thirst for blackface-minstrel shows and demeaning "darky" jokes. He supported the noxious pre-Civil War "Black Laws," which stripped African Americans of their basic rights in his native Illinois, as well as the Fugitive Slave Act, which compelled the return to their masters of those who had escaped...