Word: lincoln
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...quotation "I know that there is a God, and I see a storm coming. If he has a place for me, I am ready," which you ascribed to John F. Kennedy [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 3], actually comes from J.G. Holland's Life of Lincoln, published in 1866. Holland claimed that Lincoln, expressing his determination to resist the spread of slavery, told an Illinois educator in the spring of 1860, "I know there is a God, and...I see the storm coming...If he has a place and work for me...I am ready." But William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner...
...WINNER! About 500 people accepted our challenge two weeks ago to write a parody of a nursery rhyme that dealt with a subject in the news. In a close competition, Cheryl Georgeson of Lincoln, Neb., prevailed, and will collect a coveted Notebook T shirt. Her entry parodied "Mary Had a Little Lamb...
...Clinton that's a bitter pill. He is, after all, a President who has long communed with the biographies of his predecessors--F.D.R. and Abe Lincoln in the early days of his Administration, when greatness still seemed possible; Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes more recently, as the truth set in. He once asked his adviser Dick Morris to rank him among the Presidents ("You are right on the cusp of making third tier," the consultant replied). And early this year, buoyed by his balanced-budget agreement with Congress and the success of welfare reform, he began trying...
...York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir says hundreds of leads and inquiries have come in from across the country and beyond since the Kimeses were nabbed July 5 in New York on a fraud warrant after a Lincoln Town Car they allegedly purchased with a rubber check was found with a loaded gun, a box of .22-cal. cartridges, wigs, $30,000 in cash, blood splatters and documents that may link them to the dead man and the missing banker...
Steve Ballmer is a Ford guy. Period. His father worked for the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit for 30 years, and if Fords were good enough for Dad, then they are just fine for Steve. Still, even a Lincoln Continental seems an unlikely car choice for a man worth $14 billion--give or take a couple of million--but that's Ballmer. His loyalty is limitless...