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Lincoln's assassination initiated an even more long-lasting tribute to Moses, the Statue of Liberty, given to America by the French to honor the slain President. The sculptor, Frédéric Bartholdi, chose the goddess of liberty as his model, but he enhanced her with two icons from Moses: the nimbus of light around her head and the tablet in her arms, both from the moment Moses descends Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. The message: Freedom comes with...
...took America's most Bible-quoting President to reunite the country. Called a pharaoh by his opponents, Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves after a "vow before God"; he invoked the Exodus at Gettysburg. When he died, Lincoln, like Washington before him, was compared to Moses. "There is no historic figure more noble than that of the Jewish lawgiver," Henry Ward Beecher eulogized. "There is scarcely another event in history more touching than his death." Until now. "Again a great leader of the people has passed through toil, sorrow, battle and war, and come near to the promised land of peace...
Feiler is the author of America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story, from which this article is adapted...
...that the reason behind our day off, Christopher Columbus’ arrival on our continent, will not be very much on our minds today. Some probably would say that it is good – we should not celebrate his arrival, they say, because the indigenous people of North America certainly did not appreciate the genocide he wrought. But, Harvard, we still appreciate the historical gesture. And though Duke and U Chicago, amongst many other illustrious academic institutions in this nation, are not granting their students rest, you are, dear Harvard. And for that, our deepest thanks...
...with philanthropists and foundations, converting to charter schools, and taking control away from pastors and putting it in the hands of lay experts - these are just some of the ways dioceses (essentially a church district) are hoping to stem the school-closure tide, which has reached worrisome proportions in America's urban areas, where close to half of all parochial schools are located...