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...past month. At the Tannery bold red tape announced discounts from 20 to 50 percent on the store’s wares. At the Harvard Coop, University President Drew G. Faust was spotted with her daughter Jessica Faust ’04. The Civil War historian looked through a Lincoln biography. A staid clientele filed into the bookstore to avoid crowds at local malls. “The people who come here are interested in something better than buying clothes. It is an escape from Black Friday,” said Suzanne M. Wolfe, who shopped with her son Medical...
...price of corn has fallen at least 50% since its peak. Revising the bill is a good idea, but in doing so, we must realize that we will make food more expensive, since some farms will go broke. Sometimes these issues aren't so black and white. Matthew Bernhardt, LINCOLN...
Black Republicans often boast that theirs is the Party of Lincoln and that it was the GOP during Reconstruction that propelled several blacks into elected office. Now, however, Obama is being cast as the new Lincoln. And though George W. Bush won a surprisingly large 11% of the national black vote in 2004 - partly by appealing to African Americans' fundamentally conservative social sensibilities - the numbers have once again becoming overwhelmingly Democratic, extending a trend that began in the 1960s. This year, 95% of blacks cast their vote for Obama. (See pictures of how Obama's election energized the heart...
...Abraham Lincoln left to Barack Obama not only an example to emulate but also the sentinels who will safeguard his life. In 1865, on the very day he was assassinated at Ford's Theatre, Lincoln green-lighted what would become the U.S. Secret Service, which has been guarding Obama (code-named "Renegade") since May 2007--longer than any other presidential candidate in U.S. history...
...that Obama is serious about his declared intention to follow another Illinois President's model in assembling a "team of rivals" to run his government, in what could be a sharp contrast with the past 40 years of American Presidents. "I've been spending a lot of time reading Lincoln," Obama told Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes. "There is a wisdom there and a humility about his approach to government, even before he was President, that I just find very helpful." (See pictures from Voting...