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...book so full of grace, the Bible is remarkably tough on sons, especially the firstborn. There is Isaac, son of Abraham and Sarah, who barely escaped becoming the bloody covenant of his father's faith. Esau, who traded away his birthright for a mess of pottage. And the firstborn of the Egyptians, who paid horribly for their country's bondage of the Israelites...
...service, Senator Edward Kennedy called his former chief counsel "Will Rogers in reverse. I never met a person who didn't like Ron Brown." Surely the more than 7,000 people who stood in line all night to walk past Brown's remains resting on the catafalque built for Abraham Lincoln couldn't be faking it as well. Many of them, with their flimsy umbrellas breaking in the wind and icy rain, didn't know Brown but knew someone who did or benefited from some project he got off the ground. Jasper Johnson, who passed by the casket early Wednesday...
...irony in the quote on one poster which doubtless many did not even stop to read: "Six million were wiped off the face of the earth. And there is the danger that they will also be annihilated from our memories. Are they doomed to a two-fold annihilation?" Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's haunting question remains unanswered. Only time will tell...
After George Washington pulled ahead in the second half, Harvard mounted a mini-charge to pull within one with seconds to go. The final play of the game--in which 6'4" George Washington center Tajama Abraham emphatically rejected a potential game-winning shot by Proudfit--was symbolic of the team's prospects of gaining the confidence and national recognition that would come along with beating a team like the Lady Colonials...
...Tuesday in Vermont where he captured 14 percent of the vote.ALBANY, N.Y.: Jack Kemp endorsed Steve Forbes this afternoon, saying that the publishing heir and flat-tax champion best embodied "progressively conservative" ideals. Kemp compared the GOP today to the splintered party unified more than a century ago by Abraham Lincoln. He added that Forbes' "platform of inclusion" was the most likely to position the party for long-term strength. Kemp tempered his endorsement by stressing that he was not campaigning against Dole, but his announcement will hurt the Kansas senator in tomorrow's New York primary. Kemp, a former...