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...Abraham Lincoln knew, unique events that happened fourscore-plus years ago provide a useful way of marking time. The summoning of such events, as if at a seance, makes an audience sit up, take notice, realize just how much water has passed beneath the bridge. Also: A grander grandeur accrues to the long-past achievement as we reflect on how many human generations have come and gone in the interim ? not only how frail is the flesh, but how rare was the deed. Such a bygone event, hearkened, creates nostalgia and longing. That must have been wonderful...
...take "snippets" and use them to draw wild conclusions. I ask if people have a right to learn about those who would be President. "That's more so today than any other time in our history," Bradley replies. "I'm not so sure they tried to figure out who Lincoln was or who F.D.R...
...battery of studies before any biotech crop can be approved. A vast body of independent research confirms safety. As the co-director of the Food Allergy Research and Resource Program at the University of Nebraska, I feel comfortable eating any of the biotechnology products on shelves today. SUSAN HEFLE Lincoln...
DIED. FREDERICK P. ROSE, 75, builder and philanthropist; after a brief illness; in Rye, N.Y.; on Sept. 14. Enthusiastic and mercurial (he made origami animals out of foreign currency), Rose donated more than $95 million to such New York institutions as Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Hayden Planetarium...
Sanders Theater: Dianne Reeves, Joe Lovano, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Nicholas Payton, Rocking In Rhythm...