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...Nobel Prize for Literature. What was your crime?" Mauldin moved to the Chicago Sun-Times in 1962 and stayed there 30 years. Skillful as he was with captions, sometimes his art required no words at all. After the assassination of J.F.K., Mauldin portrayed the statue of Lincoln in his Memorial, bent over, head in hands. --By Paul Gray
...buyer is cited as one reason that SUVs and other so-called light trucks outsold passenger cars in 2002. "The quickest way to alienate customers is to have them rubbing against something," says Michael Arbaugh, a top Ford interior designer. The seats in Ford's already spacious Lincoln Navigator were widened an inch for the 2003 model, and the room between driver and steering wheel was opened up considerably. In its 2003 Focus compact, Ford narrowed the center console, armrests and map pockets in doors to accommodate wider seats...
...release played only a bit part in the drama of Illinois Governor George Ryan's final hours in office. After granting a full pardon to Hobley and three others condemned to death, Ryan then commuted the death sentences of an additional 157 inmates. Death row in the Land of Lincoln is now officially empty...
Seligman calls his third and ultimate level "the meaningful life." It consists, he says, "in identifying your signature strengths and then using them in the service of something you believe is bigger than you are." And you don't have to be conventionally happy to achieve it. "Churchill and Lincoln," Seligman says, "were two profound depressives who dealt with it by having good and meaningful lives...
...been trying to find a way out of this bind since the 1960s, when militants proposed the creation of a black third party that could deliver our votes to the party that offered us most. Nothing ever came of the idea, because the "party of Lincoln" was transforming itself into the party of Lott, Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, leaving self-respecting blacks no choice but to run to the Democrats. Yet the movement's battle cry--"We have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only permanent interests"--is as valid today as it was then, even if the prospects...