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...March 4, 1865, a tired, worn Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address from the steps of the Capitol, having presided for four long years over the most devastating war in the history of the still fledgling American democracy. Indeed, the Civil War, which saw the deaths of 600,000 citizens of the United States, remains today our most bloody, tragic national episode...
...Lincoln solemnly gave his celebrated sermon, although his words betokened reconciliation and a desire to "bind up the nation's wounds," the one emotion noticeably absent from his remarks was regret. He declared, like a stern grandfather admonishing the young, that while all wished the war to come quickly to its close, "if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand...
...YORK CITY: Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine of his followers were sentenced to lengthy jail terms in a Manhattan courtroom today following their October convictions for conspiring to blow up several New York landmarks, including the United Nations and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels. "This case is nothing but an extension of the American war against Islam," Abdel-Rahman told U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey through an interpreter. The 57-year-old Egyptian faces a mandatory life sentence for a separate conviction for plotting to kill Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. TIME's William Dowell reports: "Because the case...
...DIED. LINCOLN KIRSTEIN, 88, author and arts patron; in New York City. If George Balanchine made American dance possible, Kirstein made Balanchine possible, bringing the choreographer to the U.S. in the '30s and co-creating the School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet...
...TWELVE DREAMS James Lapine's sly, skewed play draws its inspiration from a case study of Carl Jung's in which a young girl's dreams apparently foretold her death. In a Lincoln Center revival, the haunting logic of dreams, fusing the seemingly arbitrary and the seemingly inevitable, wove an ever tightening web of enchantment...