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...Lincoln, Neb., Ahman Green and Joel Mackovica each topped 100 yards rushing--Mackovica had three TDs--and Scott Frost ran for one score and threw for another as Tom Osborne reached 250 wins quicker than any other coach...
...rabbit and passing deer will see. A few feet away, the garden that Ted Kaczynski once tended so carefully has gone to ruin; the red bicycle that he rode four miles down a dirt road into town lies in pieces, rusting and overgrown with weeds. In the town of Lincoln, Mont., no one talks much about the ex-neighbor, the Unabomber suspect. Only strangers ask about him. But two weeks ago, two strangers showed up at the small strip of grocery stores, churches and cafes along State Route 200, and they had questions about Kaczynski...
...Chinese know that Jiang Zemin was in charge of Shanghai in 1989. It is Jiang who went to Shanghai Jiaotong University, spoke with the students and quoted President Lincoln's famous in English: "We the government, are of the people, for the people and by the people." No army went to Shanghai. It was also known by many Chinese that Jiang Zemin played no role in "ordering the tanks into Tiananmen Square...
...President of China crooned When We Were Young, danced through the night, and later jokingly informed an American visitor that he had "left his heart" in that city by the Bay. When Richard Nixon visited Beijing in 1989, Jiang interrupted their meeting to leap to his feet and recite Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in English and from memory. (Nixon felt compelled to get out of his chair and declaim along.) In the Philippines last year at a soiree on the presidential yacht, Jiang danced the cha-cha and sang a duet of Love Me Tender with President Fidel Ramos. When...
Jiang: I would like to know what you refer to specifically as a gesture. We have made it clear that we respect human rights. I studied world history and your War of Independence. I read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address about your Civil War. It was the sacred mission of the U.S. to liberate slaves in your country. In Tibet, after the Dalai Lama left the country [in 1950], we have fundamentally resolved the problem of slavery there. I believe the American people should be happy to see that...