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...hearings to launch no prosecutions for Bush-era lawbreaking. At the opposite end of the spectrum, others say that even if it takes many years and divides the country and distracts from the urgent priority of fixing the economy, we must prosecute Bush Administration officials to lay down a marker. The courts are already considering congressional subpoenas that were issued earlier as well as claims of privilege and legal immunities. Those cases will stretch out for some time, as would prosecutions--taking even a decade or longer. Moreover, it is easier for prosecutors to net those far down the ladder...
...Springfield. This massive granite edifice, decorated with statues cast from melted cannons and topped by an obelisk rising 117 feet, is a testament to the enormous place Lincoln occupies in America's heart and memory. As if to remind us, though, of Lincoln's genius for understatement, his burial marker inside is starkly simple - a name and two dates...
...last word on Abraham Lincoln appears on a wall above the marker, engraved in dark marble. "Now he belongs to the ages." Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's secretary of war, said it when his leader died at dawn on an April day in 1865. But it is never and nowhere more true than in Springfield on the day you make your visit...
...Outside the Tannery, the eyes of the mural have been X’ed out in marker; on an axle of the Obey symbol, someone has written “intentional?” with an arrow pointedly aimed at a misplaced seam, suggesting an ambiguous reception to the work. Even as the perpetrators express differing degrees of animosity towards Fairey’s work, they are caught in the catch-22 underlying all he does. Knowingly or not, they obey his command: they are questioning. —Staff writer Anna K. Barnet can be reached at abarnet@fas.harvard.edu...
...Clinton's approval by the Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday morning is all but guaranteed. But Senator Lugar has laid down a marker over the potential for conflict-of-interest questions surrounding foreign donations to Bill Clinton's charitable endeavors. And if it turns out that Senator Lugar saw trouble before it arrived, it won't have been the first time...