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...coast of California, President George W. Bush landed in flying gear on the deck of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln--which sported a banner reading MISSION ACCOMPLISHED--and said, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." The war, said Bush, had been carried out "with a combination of precision and speed and boldness the enemy did not expect, and the world had not seen before...
Blackburn served as director of the surgical intensive care unit at New England Deaconess Hospital from 1973 to 1997, but his main interest now is combating obesity as the Abraham associate professor of nutrition at Harvard Medical School...
...represents: freedom, justice for his fellow man. He is unlike any other artist I've ever known. He's as comfortable with the poor and prisoners as he is with Presidents. He's crossed over all age boundaries, all political boundaries. I like to think of him as Abraham Lincoln with a wild side...
Growing up in the cool, thin air of the Kenyan highlands helped turn Stephen Cherono into a world-class runner. He honed his skills jumping over rocks and streams in his native land, following the tracks of his older brother, Abraham, and a phalanx of other Kenyan champions. At last week's World Championships in Athletics in Paris, he not only beat his brother in a thrilling 3,000-m steeplechase; he also scored a gold medal for his home country: Qatar. Qatar? That's right. Last month the lithe 20-year-old middle-distance man swapped his Kenyan passport...
...accusing Beijing of "genocide" against their fellow members. As a whole, the rally gave off a confusion of messages. Some placards condemned the National Security Bill that Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa was forced to modify, and then shelve temporarily, after the huge protest the week before. Others quoted Abraham Lincoln?"Government of the people" and so on?to demand major democratic reforms for Hong Kong. A popular T shirt had a more pointed, but still polite, directive...