Word: lincolnisms
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Standing on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln last week, George W. Bush declared the Iraq war largely over. It was a majestic occasion even if you knew that its majesty had been carefully stage-managed. Bush, who had just the right windswept-but-presidential look, had apparently even taken the controls for part of the flight from San Diego to the Lincoln. The White House could hardly have done more to ensure a big audience; the speech interrupted that hallowed American tradition called Friends. The central purpose of all the pageantry was to soothe us: We're winning...
...dilemma is that reasonable people can agree with both arguments. But no one knows whether such changes will make us safer or undermine constitutional protections--or both. On the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln last week, when the President said the war on terrorism would be a fight that lasts years, he should have added that some of its most pitched battles will be fought in our courts. And in our own divided hearts and minds. --Reported by Matthew Cooper and Viveca Novak/Washington, Rita Healy/Denver, Kathie Klarreich/Miami and Jeffery Ressner/Los Angeles
...across the country. Whether it's driven by a longing for a larger world, for post-9/11 meaning or simply for the pleasure of a silent field beneath a riotous sky, more and more Americans are falling in love with the heavens. There's Erica Block, 15, of Lincoln, Neb., who sold her horse and emptied her bank account to buy a $1,000 telescope that, she boasts, is taller than she is. There's Evan Chan, a Los Angeles tour operator who a year ago spent his free time watching TV and now--$10,000 worth of equipment...
Evident in Ikels’ book collection was his love of history, which spanned his entire life—as a senior at the Rindge he won the Abraham Lincoln Medal for history—but became more pronounced after his military service in World...
Buckler, who grew up in Lincoln, Mass., said it is “great” to know she will be close to home for good...