Word: lincolnisms
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...past seven years, sales of giant SUVs have rocketed from 50,000 to nearly 160,000. Trucks and SUVs represent 50% of all the vehicles sold in the U.S. In 1997, Ford alone tallied $60 billion in revenues from sales of popular SUVs such as the Explorer, Expedition, Lincoln Navigator and other kinds of trucks...
...Lincoln may be jazz's most prolific singer-songwriter, having penned seven out of 10 songs here, some of which even have pop-worthy melodies (this is meant as a compliment; her lyrics, on the other hand, tend toward metaphysical goofiness). But the voice is why you should care. As if she is still stung by decades-old criticisms that she's not a "true" jazz singer, Lincoln's phrasing can sound eccentric, even perverse, yet few vocalists can rival her ability to convey pure emotion--by turns rueful, reflective and exultant. She has been on a roll...
...instance, one prominent civil rights advocate has noted that the choice of February, the shortest month, is indicative of a racist culture. Never mind that February was chosen by Carter G. Woodson, the founder of Black History Month, because it includes the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln...
...lifelong curiosity about the U.S. was also in evidence. When discussing the equality of mankind, he quoted parts of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. He still remembers the English-language textbooks he used when studying to become an engineer. He recalled fondly his 1997 trip to the New York Stock Exchange, where he rang the opening bell. And, showing his mastery of my biography, he chided me for not bringing my wife, author Nancy Friday, saying it would have been more interesting to discuss her subjects--envy, jealousy, relationships and sex--than mine--economics and geopolitics...
...enjoy their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of guns and fashion. In Beverly Hills, Calif., an initiative approved for the May ballot calls for tags on new fur coats warning consumers that the animals used were possibly killed by "electrocution, gassing, neck breaking" or other means. A Lincoln Park, Mich., student is suing her high school, saying a dress code that forbids her to wear a pentagram violates her ability to practice her religion of witchery. Not far away, in Traverse City, Mich., a judge ruled that an 1897 state law against cursing in front of children...