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...best argument for the increased use of antiterrorist force is its deterrent effect. Secretary of State George Shultz outlined the rationale most bluntly in October 1984 when he declared, "We cannot allow ourselves to become the Hamlet of nations, worrying endlessly over whether and how to respond." In July, Abraham Sofaer, the State Department's legal adviser, told a meeting of the American Bar Association in London, "The groups that are responsible for attacking us in Lebanon, El Salvador and elsewhere have openly announced their intention to keep on trying to kill Americans. To the extent that they are state...
...McKim, Mead and White in architecture. Today portrait sculpture is dead, and the photo opportunity reigns. But Saint-Gaudens lived in an age when sculpture was thought the supreme mode of official commemoration, and the types he created are still very much with us. Our iconic sense of Abraham Lincoln as statesman, seamed, grave and erect, was created as much by Saint-Gaudens' bronzes as by Mathew Brady's photos. Our image of the repressive, striding Puritan with Bible, cloak and conical hat owes much of its existence to the rhetoric of Saint-Gaudens' monument to Deacon Samuel Chapin...
...Books Jimmy Breslin works the New York City streets for Table Money. The Book of Abraham follows a family for 80 generations...
...letters, scouring Europe and the Middle East in a frantic attempt to recover the past: "After six years, I found that the story of my people fills a great library. I have simply added one more book." But what a book: 80 generations of the descendants of one Abraham of Jerusalem are traced as they wander in exile across the oceans and the earth. Each is sustained by his family's faith, represented by a religious and biographical scroll handed on from one generation to the next...
...first Abraham escapes Roman soldiers. He flees to Alexandria with his sons, who thrive until a civil war inflames the population. His grandson ventures to Rome, where persecutions resume; a few chapters later, a descendant is in North Africa, courting the daughter of a Jewish Berber. The holders of the scroll move to Spain, to Narbonne, to Italy and Salonika, Holland and Paris and Poland, where the final chapter is inscribed in ashes...