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...think best in wire,” the artist once said. Thank you for abandoning paints and canvas, Mr. Calder. You bring back the crafty, Lincoln-log stacking, mobile-blowing child...
...Buick Lacrosse, a traditional full-size passenger car in the near luxury segment, is GM's answer to some very tough competition from Acura, Lexus and Lincoln. GM, which rode to glory on full-size cars but over the past two decades let its edge slip away, insists the new Lacrosse is quieter, handles better and is more powerful and more luxurious than the competition. Early reviews have been favorable...
...Afghanistan, they say, he gets up at 4 a.m. to run and e-mail before his workday really begins with an 8:30 video briefing with his regional commanders across the country. His iPod and Kindle (the newest model) are stocked by his wife with serious tomes on Pakistan, Lincoln and Vietnam. Right now, he is reading William Maley's 2002 book The Afghanistan Wars, a catalog of the long list of British failures in Afghanistan. McChrystal famously eats little during the day, recently only picking at an Afghan spread featuring four kinds of meat. To the chagrin of Afghans...
...make fun of them without fear of accidentally offending someone. This is the brilliance of the website historicaltweets.com. (See the top 10 celebrity Twitter feeds.) Historicaltweets.com has re-imagined famous moments throughout history as Twittered by the people who experienced them. Some entries are by politicians (Abe Lincoln: "Gr8 show tonite. Ford is the perfect venue for AAAAARRGH!!"). Others are by fictional characters (Odysseus: "Back home! Who r all these random dudes?"). Some even mock taboo subjects (Lou Gehrig: "Found a penny on the sidewalk! I'm the luckiest man on the face of this earth."). Despite a few questionable...
...comes President Obama—a lawyer, a teacher, a man of the constitution —to contest for the ideal. He is challenged, like Lincoln, to make the law of our constitution our guide. His challenge will be played out at home and abroad in the courts of our consciences and of public opinion. Do we believe in Law, or in its subversion? Can we hold on to the wisdom of Socrates and the hopes and ideals of our founders, or will we bow to the cynicism and power of the autocrat? Can we express our ideals...