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Soon after buying Brooks Brothers in late 2001, Claudio Del Vecchio took a trip to the warehouse that keeps the company's archives. When a business has been around since 1818, you wind up with a lot of history?especially when you're talking about the retailer that sold Abraham Lincoln the overcoat he wore to Ford's Theatre, F.D.R. the cape he donned at Yalta, Fred Astaire the neckties he used as belts and generations of men the suits they wore to their first jobs on Wall Street...
Then Musharraf unveiled a cover story of his own. In a rambling, hour-long speech to the nation, he invoked Abraham Lincoln and claimed he had been forced to act because of a rise in extremism in the country. And he accused the Supreme Court of "weakening the government's resolve" to fight terrorism by ordering the release of 61 suspected terrorists in the government's custody. But it wasn't the extremists who bore the brunt of Musharraf's wrath. Indeed, even as his regime cracked down on lawyers, journalists and human-rights activists, it agreed to a cease...
...JEFFERSON'S DAY, 9 OUT OF 10 Americans cultivated the earth. When Abraham Lincoln created the U.S. Department of Agriculture, half the country still farmed. He once said farmers were "neither better nor worse than any other people," just "more numerous." (They also received inordinate political flattery, "the reason of which I cannot perceive, unless it be that they can cast more votes.") Under F.D.R., 1 in 5 Americans was still a farmer...
...deceive you: Military panels are no substitute for habeas corpus hearings. Officials are pressured to rubber-stamp previously made judgments and accept “garbage” evidence, explains Lt. Col. Stephen E. Abraham, a military attorney who helped run the tribunals. “Nobody stood up and said the emperor’s wearing no clothes,” he writes in an affidavit. “The prevailing attitude was, ‘If they’re in Guantanamo, they’re there for a reason...
...birth as an idea 400 years ago in the Jamestown settlement to how we vote on American Idol. The more than 600 images range from the intimate back rooms of history to the grandest of public moments. We see a young Teddy Roosevelt watching through a window as Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege marches down New York City's Fifth Avenue as well as Martin Luther King Jr. transfixing hundreds of thousands on the Mall in Washington...