Word: landed
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...first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln spoke to a nation darkened by the breaking storm of the Civil War. He closed, "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." In those days, long before the advent of mass education, Lincoln had no doubt that Americans maintained a communal memory of their history...
...proselytizing--continue to echo Joshua, who gave that definitive ultimatum, which I paraphrase: "If it does not please you to serve the Lord, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Harvardites in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." (Joshua...
Starr believes that Jordan and other Clinton pals steered some $540,000 in consultant contracts to former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell in exchange for his silence about an Arkansas land deal Starr was investigating. Starr saw the same pattern in Jordan's attempts to steer Lewinsky into a job. But Hubbell is barely mentioned in Starr's report. The independent counsel repeats the Hubbell allegation but does not explore it, or any other aspect of Whitewater. (Starr says he has not decided "what steps to take, if any," in referring any other matters to Congress.) The report is also...
...pages, the Referral mentions Whitewater, the failed land deal which originated its investigation, twice. It never once mentions other issues it has been investigating for years--matters concerning the firing of employees of the White House travel office and the controversy surrounding the FBI files. By contrast, the issue of sex is mentioned more than 500 times, in the most graphic, salacious and gratuitous manner...
...first time nor, alas, probably the last for this to happen in Russia. The land is going from under our feet; our world is crumbling; and we react only by hoarding salt, sugar and matches. The people berate yet another failed leader and look for a strongman to deliver them. But while we are quick to denounce the leaders, we forget that they cannot be any different from us. Every nation has the leaders it deserves, but I have the uneasy feeling that we have the leaders we want--even if we do not dare admit it. And that...