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...even with his legacy, Brogan didn’t aim for the at first CFD. He joined the Navy instead. But by age 26—after taking a civil-service exam at his brother’s insistence—Brogan got a call from...
...fled to Australia in 1987 after he was charged with blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad, an offense punishable by death. In March 2002, the Catch the Fire Ministries, of which the two men are pastors, held a seminar on Islam in Melbourne. Scot, who presented the course, says its aim was to help Christians "understand Islamic beliefs and culture and, after the Sept. 11 attacks, why some Muslims engage in terrorism...
...Lincoln's aim was the preservation of the Union. He feared that if he freed the slaves and ordered black soldiers to kill whites, he would alienate northern conservatives and lose the border slave states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. And if the border states were lost, he believed, all was lost. Douglass had no sympathy for this reasoning. The slaveholders of the border states, he said, "have been the mill-stone about the neck of the Government, and their so-called loyalty" prevented the Union from using all its resources. He knew that 4 million slaves, plus another...
...spacecraft first detects the comet when it?s still 60 days away. The ship begins refining its aim, studying the comet?s rotation and ambient dust...
...deals took place, involving more than $21 billion. Now, however, the merger game definitely seems to be heating up again. Allied Stores, owner of Brooks Brothers and Bonwit Teller, last week announced a $3.56 billion merger with the Edward DeBartolo Corp., the largest U.S. developer of shopping malls. The aim of the Allied marriage: to avoid a $3.5 billion offer from a Canadian developer, Campeau, which promptly sued to block the Allied-DeBartolo union...