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...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, a spacious guest room, and room for a live-in maid...
...Behind the glitz, however, is a solid and reasonably full account of Lincoln's life and achievements, with an admirably nuanced examination of the agonizing politics involved in emancipating the slaves. Perhaps the most moving artifacts on display are also the simplest - plaster casts of Lincoln's craggy face and huge, rough hands, made by a sculptor during Lincoln's life. Somehow, these more than any other exhibit capture the power and the gentleness, the strength and the fatigue, that defined Lincoln as president. (See video of Lincoln in film...
...classroom, I worried that when I got in front of a bunch of kids I would suddenly discover that I didn’t have “it”—I might not have the talent, the calling, the innate ability to handle a classroom full of kids. Looking back, of course, none of that even exists. I already possessed the raw materials—dedication, optimism, and commitment, along with reservoirs of patience and creativity I didn’t even know...
...camp is deeply personal. That's because Portugal's former dictatorship, in power between 1932 and 1974, used to torture its political opponents. Members of the current government include victims of that torture; Portuguese society is also dotted with its perpetrators. "The collective subconscious of the Portuguese is full of guilt," says Lisbon lawyer Francisco Teixeira da Mota, a human rights activist...
...unanswered questions about which former prisoners might end up walking the streets and who would be responsible for monitoring their activities, providing jobs and health care, and potentially prosecuting and imprisoning them. There's also the issue of Europe's open borders: if an ex-prisoner is given full liberty in one European country he could eventually wind up in any other. (See pictures of the changing face of Europe...