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...Frederick L. Ashworth, 93 Weaponeer on the Bockscar
...giants could have ignored each other or become enemies. So how is it that Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, the most famous black man of the 19th century, became friends? And what difference did their friendship make...
...genius by showing how different aspects of Lincoln's deep emotional intelligence made him a highly effective leader. Lincoln scholar Douglas L. Wilson probes the sources of Lincoln's rhetorical powers; Harvard professor John Stauffer focuses on Lincoln's surprising relationship with another towering figure of that age, abolitionist Frederick Douglass; and Illinois Senator Barack Obama, who holds the seat Lincoln tried and failed to gain, explains the man's enduring power to inspire...
...Civil War Ransom. When Confederate soldiers surrounded Frederick, Md., in 1864 and threatened to destroy federal stores unless a ransom was paid, townspeople rustled up $200,000. The victorious Union never repaid the money, and outgoing Maryland Senator Charles Mathias has been trying to collect it for a dozen years. Last week he finally succeeded...
...into place. But that may not happen immediately, and at 56, Frankel could still enjoy a longer tenure than a two-term U.S. President. Meanwhile, Times staffers will have to start memorizing a new date. Frankel's birthday is April 3. --By Richard Zoglin. Reported by Bonnie Angelo and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York