Word: lincoln
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...that process must end and people must pick sides on the important issues of the day. Seeing all sides of an issue must not entail an abandonment of the right to take a side. The great actors in history are great precisely because of the courage of their convictions: Lincoln as the Union split, Churchill as the Nazi menace spread. The ability of these men to see through the confusion of their times and stand for ideas, principles or nations was precisely what made them unusual...
DIED. EVELYN NORTON LINCOLN, 85, personal secretary to John Kennedy; in Washington. Lincoln devoted herself to the future President from his early days in Congress to his last day in Dallas (where she rode in the fatal motorcade); she would continue to visit his grave on each anniversary of his death. Her memoirs, My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy and Kennedy and Johnson, were best sellers...
...protests by pro-life members of his party. At Friday's speech, members of two official student organizations, the Harvard Republican Club and the Harvard-Radcliffe Alliance for Life, attempted to display banners expressing their opposition to Specter's views. These banners were not offensive in tone; they read "Lincoln's Party Will Never Abandon the Unborn" and "America Votes Pro-Life '94-'96." They were hung silently and without disruption in front of the protesters' own seats. They were hung in such a way that not a single audience members' view would be obstructed...
...first banner read, "America Votes Pro-Life'94-'96," while the second one read "Lincoln'sParty Will Never Abandon the Unborn...
...Exon's gestapo is opening and censoring U.S. mail? It is curious that Exon is so exercised over "indecency" on the Internet when there is very little on the net that can't be found quite easily on the magazine racks and in the bookstores of his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska...