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...There are Mathew Brady's photographs, and Walker Evans' too, and confiscated photo albums once kept by Eva Braun. Patents go back further than Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1794), which was so simple to copy that Whitney made no money from it. Abraham Lincoln got a patent for a device to float boats over shoals (never used), and Samuel Clemens, who wrote real books as Mark Twain, got a patent for a stickum-coated scrapbook that sold thousands. A grand and intelligent book...
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...state doctrine, which holds that a U.S. court is not the proper place to debate the actions of a foreign government. They added that the refusal of the Israeli government to release key documents, including the disputed appendix, made a fair trial impossible. U.S. District Court Judge Abraham Sofaer denied Time Inc.'s motion. He ruled, however, that one of Sharon's claims, that TIME has a "vicious bias" against Jews or Israel, "is so unsubstantiated that no evidence will be allowed...
...researcher, points out in a graceful new biography, the scourge of Big Business was not always bent on vengeance. Most of the time she was a stiff-backed, old-fashioned antisuffragist who easily alternated between exposés of the Beef Trust and fawning profiles of historical heroes (Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln) and even corporate chieftains (U.S. Steel's Elbert Gary, General Electric's Owen Young). With Tarbell-like thoroughness, Brady describes a defiantly single woman wasting her talent on hasty magazine articles and much of her life in platonic friendships with adoring male colleagues. Until her death...
...wisest electorate in the world. This year's affection for Reagan, however, brought bitter second thoughts among the liberal intelligentsia, best summed up by the Washington Post's Haynes Johnson, normally an evenhanded fellow. He suggested in a column that Reagan's overwhelming support proved Abraham Lincoln wrong, that in this age of packaged candidates it was possible to fool all of the people all the time, or at least enough of the time to put a mountebank like Reagan in the White House...