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...settlement's convenantal standing with God. In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln noted sadly that both sides in the Civil War "read the same Bible" to bolster their opposing claims. When Martin Luther King Jr. talked of "Justice rolling down like waters" in his "I Have a Dream" speech, he was consciously enlisting the Old Testament prophet Amos, who first spoke those words. The Bible provided the argot--and theological underpinnings--of women's suffrage and prison-reform movements...
...result: a mirrored white bottlelike building incorporating a carved bar that Heredia's great-grandfather took to the 1910 Universal Exhibition in Brussels. Says López de Heredia, "My great-grandfather designed a bodega 129 years ago, and half of it is to be built still. Our dream is to finish it." www.lopezdeheredia.com
...Bayrou: For decades, America has been a dream for many French people. But gradually, with the Iraq war being the most recent stage, people have got the impression that the American dream was drying up. American society now seems founded on the laws of the rich and the influential, and that's something French people would never tolerate...
...Anyone know what liquid nitrogen is made of?” leading one of the students to eagerly reply, “nitrogen!” Counter said he was happy to see the children learning about science and having fun. “This was a dream for me. Having taught science at Harvard for more than 25 years, I wanted to introduce young people in public schools to science so that they would have an interest in the sciences as big as their interest for the humanities,” said Counter. Counter said the Foundation?...
...heels of the most dogmatic administration in recent history, we welcome a president who approaches today’s complex issues with an eye toward workable solutions rather than unbending ideology—never haplessly accept the status quo, but always seek to expand the meaning of the American dream...