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...less said, the better," doubting that the pious Holland would want the details of Lincoln's unorthodox history. How, for example, Lincoln had doubted the divinity of Christ and the infallibility of the Bible. "Oh, never mind," Holland said. "I'll fix that"--and his book made Lincoln a model Christian...
Mary Todd Lincoln had no such luck, though--except, of course, to become the negative role model for every First Lady ever since and also, perhaps, for the First Husbands of tomorrow. If Mary's tortured ghost (and she believed in ghosts--they were among her only companions at the end) could offer those First Spouses any advice, it might come down to this: Stay in the background, avoid having your fortune told and don't--at least not before speaking to your spouse--purchase new clothes or change the White House wallpaper. Your nation may soften its view...
...Acer's story is an inspirational one for other Taiwan electronics firms. Its strengths are flexibility and a willingness to buck conventional wisdom. While other PC companies were abandoning traditional sales channels to compete with Dell's Internet-based direct-sales model, Acer stuck with conventional distributors such as Ingram Micro. The strategy allowed Acer to reach larger markets without building a costly direct-sales infrastructure...
Richardson, 47, a professor at Ohio State University, is married and says she has never served as anyone's Other Woman, old model or new. She got interested in the topic when one of her students, involved with a married man, asked about the research on the subject. "There wasn't any, so I did a study myself," says Richardson, who talked to 700 Other Women, 55 of them at some length...
...held political office, never made a fortune nor ruled a corporate empire. He had no use for the trappings of worldly power; his clout came from the urgency of his message and his unwavering moral courage. Of this century's heroes, the man he most closely resembled was his model, India's Mohandas K. Gandhi. Combining Christian idealism with Gandhi's principle of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. awakened the conscience of the U.S. and the world to the plight of America's blacks. More than any other single person, King was responsible for the endowment...