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...people have fought longer, struggled harder, or sacrificed more than yours in order to survive, to grow, and to live in freedom," said Reagan, turning to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. "Let us remember that whether we be Christian or Jew or Muslim, we are all children of Abraham, all children of the same God." But now, Reagan warned, "forces of aggression, lawlessness and tyranny . . . seek to undo the work of generations of our people, to put out a light that we've been tending for the past 6,000 years." More personally, the President said to a visibly...
...what they promised but by improvising wisely when they faced the inevitable surprises. Thomas Jefferson plunked down $15 million cash for the Louisiana territory, doubling the size of the U.S., something he never anticipated when he was designing a government for the 13 colonies. In the four months between Abraham Lincoln's election and his assumption of power, all hope for a peaceful solution to slavery vanished, and when Lincoln arrived in Washington, his task was to fight...
Circumcision has a long history. Ancient Egyptians may have been the first practitioners, possibly using it to mark slaves. Jews adopted it as a religious rite in observance of the covenant between God and Abraham. For many Jews today, circumcision of an infant boy is a joyous family celebration. In the U.S. the operation found favor in the late 1800s as a deterrent to masturbation, then popularly considered the source of much physical and mental illness. During World War II, military surgeons concluded that circumcision was necessary for hygiene, particularly in the tropics, and snipped the foreskins of uncircumcised soldiers...
Business Consultant Abraham Zaleznik was presented with the following problem: the client was the head of a successful hosiery company that he had inherited from his father. As president, the man aggressively expanded the business, building additional plants and buying new machinery. Yet the market was moving away from his product. Hoping to improve things by a dramatic change he appointed a successor as president and made himself chairman. Then he went into a panic and consulted Zaleznik about whether to fire his successor...
...dragged out a collection of notes he had been accumulating on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The resulting book became a six-figure success, translated into 14 languages. Bishop was unexpectedly rich and courted. The Hearst organization signed him to write a syndicated column, and his Christ book became a bigger hit than Lincoln: "Ministers from around the nation were writing to say that I inspired them in their work. This is not amusing to a man who has stopped going to church...