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...Secret Service, usually traveling in an entourage of American-made Chevrolet Suburbans and Lincoln Towncars, yesterday descended on Harvard with a Jaguar in tow and in it, Britain's own Prince Andrew...
Biography is not a certain indicator of presidential excellence. Some men of great accomplishment, like General Douglas MacArthur, would have made terrible Presidents. Others who showed little promise before winning the White House--Abraham Lincoln was a mere one-term Congressman and failed Senate candidate--blossomed into greatness once they got there. One exception is Teddy Roosevelt, who took San Juan Hill before taking the White House. T.R., not surprisingly, is one of McCain's heroes...
...mileage, and the result was that one car on the road looked a lot like the next, if not exactly like a Toyota Camry or Honda Accord. Smooth with little edge on the outside, functional within--how many cup holders does yours have? Even luxury cars, from Lexus to Lincoln, have become all but generic, right down to their CD players and navigation systems. Think of them as wombs with a view. Reliable? Absolutely. Efficient? You bet. Dull? Unequivocally...
...evolution, but the subject will no longer be included in statewide tests for evaluating students--a virtual guarantee, given the realities of education, that this central concept of biology will be diluted or eliminated, thus reducing courses to something like chemistry without the periodic table, or American history without Lincoln...
Attending this program, James Fugitte, president of an electronic-payments-processing company in Elizabethtown, Ky., was fascinated by "how, with such clarity, Lincoln articulated the role the government should take to win the war." Fugitte could see how the actions of a captain of industry at the dawn of the 21st century, while not as dramatic as Lincoln's, are remarkably relevant. For any offsite to be effective, relevance is key. Participants, says Zimmerer, must go back to work and say, "I see what I learned, and I can transfer it to what I do every...