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...will no longer enjoy an obvious advantage of access when compared to other countries. As local students in many developing countries are granted access, physically studying in America, while still advantageous, becomes less so. In this situation, it is also more likely that underprivileged academicians—hitherto without access to Western libraries— will produce more world-class research...
...newly accessible, and there's a new drive to get him right. "We really are in a renaissance of Lincoln literature," notes Harold Holzer, a co-chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. "All of the classic works are being updated and improved upon. All the great themes that hitherto we thought had been dealt with definitively are being re-explored." In popular culture too, there is a Lincoln boom: in April a $150 million Lincoln library and museum complex opened in Springfield, Ill. Steven Spielberg has cast Liam Neeson to star in the first feature film on Lincoln since...
...head and carted away after repeatedly insisting he is not dead yet.) Not Dead Yet exposes important biases in the “right to die” movement, including the fact that as early as 1988, Jack Kevorkian advertised his intention of performing medical experimentation (“hitherto conducted on rats”) on living children with spina bifida, at the same time harvesting their organs for reuse...
...inquiring reader of 1982 the comparative calm of the Lindbergh Case last week was important. The scum of early reportorial confusion--result of keen newspaper competition and official impatience with the Press--had begun to be skimmed off the story. Facts hitherto obscured by haste and hysteria were clear. Also, it began to seem as though trails to the solution were converging...
...fulfilling his "Palestinian Mandela" ambitions. If Barghouti stayed in the race with the backing of the Fatah militants - making it an election fought over the fundamental strategic direction to be adopted by the Palestinians - and was then decisively defeated, Abbas would be free to pursue all manner of hitherto unpopular compromises with Israel. But that also remains the least likely scenario given the stated preference of so many of the militants to present a single face to the world no matter how deeply they may differ with him on the basic questions facing the Palestinians...