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DIED. ROBERT GUENETTE, 68, documentarian; of brain cancer; in Los Angeles. He pioneered the use of re-enactments that appeared to be shot by on-the-scene news crews in such films as his 1971 Emmy winner They've Killed President Lincoln. His 1974 Monsters! Mysteries or Myths?, about the Loch Ness monster, the Abominable Snowman and Bigfoot, is the highest-rated documentary in TV history...
...little-known Midwesterner named Abraham Lincoln established himself as a national candidate for President by delivering an intellectually rigorous dismantling of the constitutional arguments for slavery at Cooper Union in New York City. Ever since, politicians have stood on the same podium and given immortality their best shot. It was Howard Dean's turn last week--and his Cooper Union appearance provided an inadvertent insight into the nature of his campaign...
Fatherfucker is not a CD you’ll often want to hear, but you probably haven’t heard many like it. Peaches, the woman behind this electro mayhem, distorts gender and challenges our conceptions of what women should sing about. And with her bushy Abe Lincoln beard, about how they should even look on their record covers...
...MISSION ACCOMPLISHED sign, of course, was put up by the members of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, saying that their mission was accomplished." PRESIDENT BUSH, on the banner that was used as a backdrop for his appearance aboard an aircraft carrier to declare the end of major combat operations in Iraq in May. His spokesman later clarified: Though the Navy requested the banner, the White House made...
President Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln, sent the HRC a personal telegraph expressing his enthusiasm for the newly formed club, and future president Theodore Roosevelt wrote to the new board, “I am more than glad to see Harvard College Republicans keeping Harvard where she belongs.” Now, 115 years later, the HRC continues to keep Harvard where she belongs, even if The Crimson would rather not write about...