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...made the announcement of his presidential bid earlier this month in Springfield, Illinois, in front of the Old State Capitol, the very same place where, in Obama’s words, “[Abraham] Lincoln once called on a house divided to stand together.” You can bet that this will not be the last time that Obama frames himself as Lincoln 2.0; the marketing opportunity is just too good to miss...
...moths in one and then you can nuke them. We’re a charitable people, we could have ended this a long time ago.” HRC President Jeffrey Kwong ’09 said the Lincoln Day celebration was held to honor both Abraham Lincoln and Black History Month. He said Parker could be viewed as a modern-day embodiment of Lincoln because she “really looks at the dignity within each person.” President of the Harvard College Democrats Brigit M. Helgen ’08 cited a 2005 column in which...
...winter weather hasn’t affected my mood that much,” said Abraham Lin ’10, of Sunnyvale, Calif, “although I have friends back home who wouldn’t be able to survive the cold and snow...
...most immediately noticeable aspect of “Lincoln’s Smile and Other Enigmas” is a giant photograph of Abraham Lincoln’s craggy face staring out from the cover. But in spite of the photograph’s prominence, the key word in the title of Alan Trachtenberg’s new book is not “Lincoln,” but “enigmas.”Honest Abe figures only slightly in one of the book’s essays, and even then it is not so much Abraham Lincoln...
...That's what Abraham Lincoln understood. He had his doubts. He had his defeats. He had his setbacks. But through his will and his words, he moved a nation and helped free a people. It is because of the millions who rallied to his cause that we are no longer divided, North and South, slave and free. It is because men and women of every race, from every walk of life, continued to march for freedom long after Lincoln was laid to rest, that today we have the chance to face the challenges of this millennium together, as one people...