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CLIP JOB This week in Los Angeles, Butterfield & Butterfield will auction off a tuft of Abraham Lincoln's hair, with, the catalog promises, traces of the President's blood still visible. The hair was clipped during Lincoln's postmortem and wrapped in a telegram, which is included. Bid estimates...
...bemoan the "perverse" impact of the economic sanctions against Iraq. But Etchegaray -- who is the Vatican's chief planner for the 2,000th-anniversary celebrations -- was also laying groundwork for a papal visit. The thinking is that the pope will visit biblical sites, including Ur, the birthplace of Abraham, in present-day Iraq. Other tantalizing events for 2000, in the talking stage, are a summit meeting for world Christian leaders and an interreligious gathering, Jews and Muslims included, on Egypt's Mount Sinai...
Things did not start well for Harvard, as Trinity took the first two of the nine matches to take an early lead. But the Crimson responded with four consecutive wins by freshman No. 6 Andrew Merrill (3-2), freshman No. 4 Deepak Abraham (3-1), Lauer (3-1) and a determined captain No. 1 Daniel Ezra (3-0) who had been shut out by his opponent, defending national champion sophomore Marcus Cowie, earlier in the year...
Similarly, in 1860-61 the U.S. was falling to pieces as one state after the other seceded from the union. During this time of crisis, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln said it is the duty of a President to execute the laws and maintain the existing government, and not entertain any proposition of dissolution or dismemberment. Lincoln's commitment to the union of all states was absolute...
...special significance of the year 2000 emerged from prophecies about Christ's Second Coming. By the reckoning of early Christian scholars, human history would end after 6,000 years, each thousand years corresponding to one day of creation. Some believed that there were 2,000 years between Adam and Abraham and 2,000 between Abraham and Jesus, and that after 2,000 more (constituting the Christian era) Jesus would return and reign in glory for 1,000 years--hence the millennium...