Word: lincoln
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Another reason for the inertia is the official bias in favor of war veterans, who now hold more than half of all federal jobs, and 65% of the highest paying ones. This preference dates back to 1865, when a grateful President Lincoln pressed for a law that would favor those who "have borne the battle." Veterans of any war are entitled to a crucial extra five points on the civil service exam. If disabled vets pass the test, they automatically go to the top of the hiring list no matter how many others have scored higher...
Caroline Cunningham's sister Eleanor, the number four player, put Harvard back in front 2-1 shortly after Stone's loss by squashing Sarah Lincoln...
...seemed "beautiful but a little scaring" to Italian Tenor Luciano Pavarotti. No, not New York's newest layer of flaky white; rather, he was describing the Metropolitan Opera's first solo recital, which he was about to give at Lincoln Center. His audience: some 4,000 Met patrons plus 12 million public-television viewers. "When opera went to TV," reflected Pavarotti, "people could see it's not so stupid as they thought if it's well done. It's like antique furniture." Come again, Luciano? "You either like...
DIED. Abraham Lincoln Wirin, 77, for four decades chief counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union who frequently took its cases before the Supreme Court; of a stroke; in Hollywood, Calif. Wirin fought for workers during the '30s, helped restore the rights and property of Japanese Americans following World War II, and battled the death penalty as unconstitutional. In the A.C.L.U.'s libertarian tradition, he also counseled fascists, Nazis, religious fanatics, and criminals, including Sirhan Sirhan. Said Wirin: "The rights of all persons are wrapped in the same constitutional bundle as those of the most hated member...
...family of a drunken steelworker in Germantown, Pa. Only when she was 18 did she learn from the doctor who delivered her that she was descended from two of the most illustrious families of America, the Blairs of Maryland and the Andersons of Virginia. One grandfather had been Lincoln's Postmaster General; the other had commanded Union forces at Fort Sumter. Her unmarried mother, Maria Anderson, had given her out for adoption, with a promise some day to come back for her. She never did, and Sunny spent most of her life seeking a claim to lineage...