Word: lincolnisms
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...lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions in Roemer's name be sent to the Massachusetts Audubon Society in Lincoln or to Project Bread in Boston
Even though Charles Keating spent 4 1/2 years in prison for his starring role in the $3.4 billion collapse of Lincoln Savings & Loan, the poster boy for the 1980s S&L scandals that cost taxpayers nearly $500 billion was still able to thumb his nose at prosecutors last week...
These are just a few of the images that greet visitors to Juan Darien, a self-described "carnival Mass" being staged at New York City's Lincoln Center. Adapted from an Uruguayan story by innovative stage director and designer Julie Taymor, it is a visually dazzling and utterly original piece of stagecraft. But perhaps more startling is what its creator is doing next. Taymor, a leading light of New York's experimental theater scene, has been picked by Disney to turn its all-time biggest movie hit, The Lion King, into a Broadway show...
...Abraham Lincoln gained notoriety throughout the Union for his participation in the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Seven years later, he was shot and killed. Just last week, my great-uncle Julius was debating whether or not to drive in the HOV lane on the Long Island Expressway; someone honked at him and made a rude hand gesture...
...permanent slouch, Matt can't quite pull off the menacing air people attach to drug dealers. Maybe it's the fact that he operates under the stately trees of Chicago's wealthy North Shore, or that he is only 17 and wears braces. He parks his late-model Lincoln in the student lot and saunters through the after-school crowd loitering on "Smokers' Corner," a short block from New Trier Township High School. Matt talks the language of business, not crime. "The way to make a large sum of money is with repeat customers," he explains. "With me, these kids...