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...manuscripts, including a copy of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's handwriting, and troves of artifacts like his small wooden deathbed. It's also the glitziest presidential museum, a special-effects parade of ghostly holograms and mannequin Abes. "Lincoln is presented in a way people can easily digest," said executive director Richard Norton Smith. "If you want the icon, go to the memorial...
...conference was called, dramatically enough, "The State Department Held Hostage." Chaired by Richard Viguerie, publisher of the Conservative Digest, the conference was a grand opportunity for the disaffected right to bash, of all people, Secretary of State George Shultz. Wearing stickers emblazoned with an umbrella (to commemorate British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who sought to appease Adolf Hitler), some 150 delegates accused Shultz of being too soft on terrorists, too warm to the Soviets and too cool toward freedom fighters in Angola, Afghanistan and Mozambique...
...Krakow and Wadowice, Poland where Karol Jozef Wojtyla was born nearly 85 years ago. The Eternal City, of course, carries on. But these next two or three days-before the speculation over succession begins to multiply-the forever take-it-as-it-comes Romans may need some time to digest the event that just passed through town, and imagine the ancient city without its most imposing foreign presence. After a week straight of sunshine, that?s what today?s rain seems to be saying...
...Pinkerton’? Should I give up hope? Has he—gasp—sold out?” Behold the eternal problem for us music listeners. Do we have a right to feel betrayed if our favorite musicians start making big money on easy-to-digest musical nuggets? Do we declare that they’ve “sold out” because they aren’t “pushing” the “envelope” anymore? Or are such thoughts juvenile and elitist? I feel as though I can only answer...
...Cokes on the shelf, the supermarket purchase share of each might be lower than what Pepsi can muster. Coke is unlikely to worry though, since the combined might of its dual entries will still be greater than Pepsi's. In this case, notes Jesse Meyers, publisher of Beverage Digest, "the sum of the parts is greater than the whole...