Word: lincoln
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Rudenstine likened Rabin to Abraham Lincoln, Ghandi, Anwar Sadat and Martin Luther King, calling them "different peace makers representing similar aspirations who have fallen in this...
...moment, the man who has the inside track is President Jiang Zemin, who last week held a sort of mini-summit with President Bill Clinton in New York City. Clinton and Jiang talked for two hours at Lincoln Center without reaching any new agreements. But they were determined to demonstrate publicly that Sino-American relations, which have been strained and verging on bad, are starting to improve. White House spokesman Michael McCurry offered a painstaking formulation: Clinton was "confident that we have begun a process that will lead to a series of dialogues that will help improve the opportunity...
SUMMIT II: LINCOLN CENTER...
...mood was decidedly less chummy when Clinton met for two hours at New York's Lincoln Center with China's President Jiang Zemin. The two nations remained intractable on the many issues that divide them-human rights, Taiwan, Tibet, nuclear nonproliferation-though each side politely called the talks ''positive...
Donald is an excellent historian and writer, not to mention the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for biography. Fortunately, Lincoln's life is interesting enough that even when retold in Donald's careful, dry and factual way it holds the reader's attention for all 600 pages. Lincoln is an excellent, extremely informative biography that has deservedly been hailed as the best in a generation and among the best of all time...