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...this aspect of Professor Sen that sets him apart, this deeply human quality," said Arun Abraham in a statement. Abraham is a master's degree student in public policy and in theology who has worked as Sen's research assistant for three years...
...even in Hollywood, would have ventured out with a show based on the preposterous premise that during the Civil War, an English nobleman of Moorish descent somehow winds up in America, where he maneuvers himself into a position on Abraham Lincoln's kitchen staff, unless he or she were intoxicated. Once they sobered up and checked out the pilot episode--a heavy-handed, totally unfunny spoof of the current White House scandal--they would have asked themselves, "What were we thinking?" and pulled the plug on the series out of sheer embarrassment...
HONEST, ABE! Yes, that really was Senator Strom Thurmond cheering Nelson Mandela below a statue of Abraham Lincoln last week. Thurmond, who in 1948 ran for President as a segregationist and who in 1957 conducted a record-busting filibuster against a civil rights bill, was not always so Mandela friendly. In 1985 he voted against imposing economic sanctions on South Africa's apartheid regime and for a provision declaring Mandela's African National Congress a terrorist group; in 1986 he voted against sanctions again and backed an unsuccessful Reagan veto of the measures. But that was before Mandela...
...first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln spoke to a nation darkened by the breaking storm of the Civil War. He closed, "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." In those days, long before the advent of mass education, Lincoln had no doubt that Americans maintained a communal memory of their history...
Many Americans are asking: Where are the Abraham Lincolns of today? No doubt, we could sure use someone like him. But let's not forget that for Lincoln had a racist, pro-slavery vice president by the name of Andrew Johnson, who was also later impeached as President...