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...extensive lobbying, my birthday has been declared a University holiday, my blockmate happily announced when he realized that Feb. 16 was a day off. As many Harvard students probably did not realize, this past Monday was Presidents' Day, a national holiday that honors the contributions of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln...

Author: By Thomas P. Windom, | Title: Editorial Notebook | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...extensive lobbying, my birthday has been declared a University holiday, my blockmate happily announced when he realized that Feb. 16 was a day off. As many Harvard students probably did not realize, this past Monday was Presidents' Day, a national holiday that honors the contributions of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln...

Author: By Thomas P. Windom, | Title: Happy Birthday, Mr. President | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...Both of our one and two players have beaten their opponents in the past year," Wyant said. "Our number four [freshman Deepak Abraham] lost in five games and the number five [senior Jeff Blumberg] match went to four games. The match was closer than the score, and 6-3 is relatively close anyway...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Trinity Ends Men's Squash 89-Match Win Streak, 6-3; Women Triumph | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...early days as President, when it seemed as though great things were still possible, Bill Clinton steeped himself in the histories of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. But as he prepares for his sixth State of the Union speech next week, this President, so publicly fixated on the 21st century, is spending his private hours pondering the quiescent, almost forgotten stretches of the 19th, the times Clinton calls "fallow periods." The biographies he has devoured lately include those of such unimpressive Chief Executives as Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant. He even had adviser Sidney Blumenthal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Last Campaign | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...taking big risks just to sit down for what he billed as a message to "the great American people." With a bit of potted history, he elaborated on why "the American civilization is worthy of respect." He had a good word for the Puritans, the Declaration of Independence and Abraham Lincoln. Somewhat condescendingly and totally preposterously, he granted the "legitimacy" of the American government. But he said he wanted to crack the "wall of mistrust" between Iran and the U.S., even though it was caused by American misdeeds. So, while government-to-government talks were not on the agenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: New Day Coming? | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

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