Word: lincoln
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...after, real-world architects, the kind who work with poured concrete and get major commissions. In the past few years their firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro--they brought in Charles Renfro as full partner two years ago--has been chosen to redesign large parts of the glamorous marbledom that is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City and to convert an abandoned elevated railway line in lower Manhattan into a very unusual park. They had already completed a housing project in Gifu, Japan. And on Dec. 7 their first major building in the U.S., the new home...
...YORK CITY - Tickets to a Broadway show - Pre-theater dinner at Asian-fusion eatery Asiate with sommelier selections - Tickets to the Metropolitan Opera - Commemorative iPod loaded with New York City tunes - Tickets to Jazz at Lincoln Center - Helicopter service...
...Rhode Island, moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee was defeated by former state attorney general Sheldon Whitehouse. And in Massachusetts, Democrat Deval L. Patrick ’78 won the state’s governorship. In addition to campaigning for Patrick at home, the Dems had taken several trips to Rhode Island to campaign for Whitehouse. And the club also stumped for Democrat Bob Casey Jr. in his successful bid to oust Republican Sen. Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania...
...have been on campus for only a month, and yet I already have a drawer full of loose change. I grant that the quarters, dimes, and nickels come in handy for photocopiers or vending machines, but every day I find myself staring down at Abraham Lincoln and asking, “What am I going to do with you?” The reply is always silence, predictably—but also appropriately, because even the animate among us can’t come up with a good answer. Indeed, it is high time to abolish the penny from...
...with any hint of religiosity has often inhibited us from effectively addressing issues in moral terms. Some of the problem is rhetorical: Scrub language of all religious content and we forfeit the imagery and terminology through which millions of Americans understand both their personal morality and social justice. Imagine Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address without reference to "the judgments of the Lord," or King's "I Have a Dream" speech without reference to "all of God's children." Their summoning of a higher truth helped inspire what had seemed impossible and move the nation to embrace a common destiny...