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...self-described "bleeding-heart conservative" had something else to say. Forming fists with his words, Kemp thundered, "Republicans in California want to deny assistance to the children of illegal immigrants. They wouldn't even be able to go to school. Think about that. Is that what the party of Lincoln is about? We can't just welcome the less fortunate and minorities. We have to reach out to them. We are obliged to help them become like the rest of us in this room. It is not only the morally right thing to do," Kemp said quietly for emphasis...
...that transcends racial demarcations. He has the ability to excite the white delegates. More importantly, Powell brandishes the key to unlocking the power and vitality of America's minorities. His leadership marks a new era in the Republican Party. People need not stop with "the party of Lincoln." Why not say "the party of Lincoln and Powell...
...enough party, and big enough people, to disagree on individual issues and still work together for our common goal: restoring the American dream." Former president Gerald R. Ford too urged GOP activists to work under a big tent open to broad views. "Ours is the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln," Ford said...
...Kaplan's Mahler fixation extends to actually stepping up on a podium and conducting the Second Symphony. Since his debut at Manhattan's Lincoln Center 14 years ago with the American Symphony Orchestra, rented for the occasion, he has led the lone, magnificent work in his repertoire nearly 50 times, with 31 different orchestras...
...adolescent, Hall was an indifferent student who clashed with his parents and took refuge at friends' homes. But Hall idolized his maternal grandfather, Charles Keating Jr., a one-time NCAA swimming champion with whom he would shoot prairie dogs on the family compound. When Keating, former chairman of Lincoln Savings & Loan, was indicted in 1990 and convicted of fraud and racketeering, Hall was devastated. "He was one person who had confidence in me," he says. "It was traumatizing--more painful than losing someone to death." Soon the teen was blowing up mailboxes and carving up the green of a golf...