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...starts with the impressive job that the National Park Service has done with the Lincoln home, at the corner of Eighth and Jackson streets. If you stay at the Hilton, or the nearby Abraham Lincoln Hotel, you'll have only a short walk to the house where Abe and Mary Lincoln raised their boys from 1844 until they left for Washington in 1861. The handsome clapboard two-story has been meticulously maintained by the Park Service, but that's only the beginning. The federal government also acquired four square blocks surrounding the Lincoln home and - after removing all post-Lincoln...
...home exudes a warm, middle-class prosperity, and in a small house across the street from the Lincolns, you can follow the steady rise of the young lawyer and family man. When Lincoln bought the place at Eighth and Jackson in 1844 - the first and only home he ever owned - he was a 35-year-old politician with a wife and a baby, and the house was a modest story-and-a-half. As he grew wealthier, Lincoln literally blew the roof off the place, extending it to a full two stories. Now there was space for big parties...
...teach at a school in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. It’s an underachieving school even by the standards of where Teach for America places its members. We take students who weren’t able to pass out of eighth grade before they became too old to start high school. Some have been thrown out of two or three middle schools, and many served time in juvenile detention for a colorful range of offenses. Others simply lost a year as orphans of the storm, Katrina kids mishandled by overwhelmed officials in Houston, Atlanta, or Arkansas who fell behind...
...pictures of eighth-graders being recruited for college basketball...
...Vagina Monologue” performances around the country will take part in raising awareness of the issue. The production—co-sponsored by the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) and the Harvard College Women’s Center—is showing for the eighth time at Harvard. Since the show operates outside of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) umbrella, it holds its own auditions outside of Common Casting. Everyone who auditioned was cast in the production. Bryant says the auditions do not have strict guidelines so that as many people can be involved...