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Time and value, in fact, have little to do with each other; the good die young, old and in between. It took Lincoln considerably less time to write the Gettysburg Address than it did for the Chinese to build their Great Wall, but given the choice, I for one would take the speech. Kennedy accomplished a number of quite valuable things in his life--specifically in programs for the disabled that helped the helpers of the disabled extend their education. The ripple effect of that sort of public service widens forever...
...west, most people were more interested in making money than fighting the war--although California managed to donate a few shipments of gold to the national treasury, it never bothered to send actual soldiers to the battlefield. Los Angeles was, and is, closer to Mexico City than to Gettysburg...
...debut next fall. This will not be Sheen's first trip to the Oval Office. In fact, over the course of his career, he has frequently traipsed through the halls of power (including a tour in the Armed Forces as General Robert E. Lee in the 1993 film Gettysburg). Anxious as we are for The West Wing, we're still waiting to see what Sheen could do with a sensitively written role for one of Washington's real power positions, like, say, Secretary of Transportation...
...GETTYSBURG DRESS? Author and activist Larry Kramer claims to have uncovered evidence that Abe Lincoln was gay, and is writing a book about it. So is sex-researcher C.A. Tripp. What we know...
...issue gets to the heart of the American experience, which is to allow each and every one of us to develop his or her talents to the fullest," Forbes told a gathering sponsored by the Citizens for a Sound Economic Foundation. "To put it in perspective, the Gettysburg Address was 200 words, the Holy Bible...is 73,700 words, and the federal income tax code is now seven and a half million words and rising...