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...fact that his excessive zeal for America—he keeps a photo of Abraham Lincoln with him—is neither motivated nor explained, Uncle Nino is quickly revealed to be a combination of clichéd ideas rather than a believable character. To get a sense of this think two straight hours of Pinocchio’s Geppetto, with a very bad cocaine problem...
...sole loss for Harvard came at the No. 9 spot, where senior Ryan Abraham dropped a tough five-game match to Will Simonton. It was Abraham’s first competitive action of the year, as he filled in for the resting Suchde and Oren...
...Woodson ’12, the second African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, started “Negro History Week” in 1926, a tradition which evolved into Black History Month. He chose February because it is the month in which both Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were born...
...some ways, this Republican faction signals a return to the original political allegiances of African Americans. In homage to Abraham Lincoln's ending slavery, most blacks voted Republican until Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt wooed them into his New Deal coalition in 1932. Now the Republicans are injecting different ideas. Kemp, for example, suggests that the government eliminate capital-gains taxes on inner-city entrepreneurs in order to put more funds into urban pockets of impoverishment. Only 5% of blacks are self-employed, vs. 11% of whites...
...fuel. In time, we'll look at getting books for kids out there, school kits." Then the survivors will need another army of donors to piece together the lives they have lost. --Reported by Aravind Adiga/ Kudathanai; Denis Giles/aboard the relief ship MV Sentinel; Robert Horn/ aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln; Carolina A. Miranda and Deirdre van Dyk/ New York; Alex Perry/ Port Blair; Eric Roston/ Washington; and Jason Tedjasukmana/ Banda Aceh