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Bishop graduated from Gettysburg College and attended Harvard Medical School. In 1968, he began to teach at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he is now a university professor. In addition to his research, Bishop was won acclaim for his talents as an educator; in 1998, he was made Chancellor of UCSF...
...meditation on the ethics of reporting from a totalitarian regime forms a centerpiece for Embedded, are compared to the works of Shakespeare and the Old Testament in the book. In person, Carlson reflects that Burns sounded a lot like Winston Churchill—or was that Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg? Newsweek reporter Scott Johnson’s recollection of being shot at makes him, in Carlson’s words, something like a latter-day Stephen Crane. An Al Jazeera correspondent with a fastidious dedication to fairness is, somewhat jarringly, just like Felix Unger...
...Bush Stays Away," Charles Krauthammer defended President Bush's policy of not attending the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq [Dec. 8]. Of course, it is not feasible for Bush to go to every funeral, but have either Krauthammer or Bush considered President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address? It was given on Nov. 18, 1863, in the middle of the Civil War. Lincoln eloquently honored the fallen soldiers without suggesting any weakness. His words of compassion and hope were not written by a professional speechwriter. Is it too much to expect that Bush will emulate Lincoln's humble example and honor...
...nation's independence-it was, he said, India's "tryst with destiny"-still haunts his countrymen with a sense of their potential for greatness; the speech in which he used the phrase, his midnight address to the nation at the moment of independence, is India's equivalent of the Gettysburg Address...
Both Lincoln and Kennedy guided the country through peril. Both men gave their lives for their country. Both remain beloved. Lincoln said at Gettysburg that the world would “little note, nor long remember what we say here.” He could not have been more wrong. His speech, and all the speeches and memories of Lincoln and Kennedy, will endure in this country forever...