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...original Richard III. An Elizabethan groupie approached him after a performance in the early 1590s and asked him to visit her that night, announcing himself "by the name of Richard the Third." Burbage complied and was greeted by a message from one Will Shakespeare announcing "that William the Conqueror was before Richard the Third...
...Ehud, acting in behalf of the defeated Israelites, assassinated Eglon, the King of Moab. There is the story of the widow Judith saving the Israelites by cutting off the head of Nebuchadnezzar's general, Holofernes, who was besieging Bethulia. Such killings, however, were defiant acts against a conqueror and thus not strictly foreign policy assassinations. Rome was sufficiently bloody with assassinations-the murders of Julius Caesar and Tiberius Gracchus, for example-but these were factional acts, intramural mayhem...
...HARKIN. Another conqueror of a senior Republican, Harkin, 34, upset Iowa's Scherle in a district made more liberal in 1971 by new lines that encompass Iowa State University in Ames. A former Navy pilot in Viet Nam, Harkin drew national attention in 1971 when, as an assistant to a House committee, he released photographs of the "tiger cage" treatment of political prisoners in South Viet Nam. Formerly a legal-aid lawyer, Harkin successfully employed an unusual campaign tactic by spending 27 days on 27 different jobs, ranging from welding to performing a housewife's home work...
Chicken Tax. Holder of a hereditary fief granted by Queen Elizabeth I in 1565, she kept her latter-day serfs in most agreeable thrall. "What was good enough for William the Conqueror is good enough for us!" was the grande dame's battle cry against the incursions of modernity. As a result of her efforts, the farmers and fisherman of Sark pay not a farthing of British income taxes; neither are they plagued by automobiles, transistor radios and unemployment...
IRVING KRISTOL, U.S. writer, professor and editor (The Public Interest): Abe Lincoln is the prototype-the leader who is uncommon but not beyond emulation by the common man. He's not a Napoleon. This is American democratic politics. You don't want a world conqueror. In latter days John Kennedy had that uncommon-common quality; so did both Roosevelts, T.R. and F.D.R., although they were distinctly below Lincoln...