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Above all, he was quick to concede error. When Grant was moving toward Vicksburg, Lincoln thought he "should go down the river," where he could meet up with General Nathaniel Banks. Instead, Grant decided to turn northward. "I feared it was a mistake," Lincoln acknowledged after Grant's spectacular victory. "I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." Then, to lessen the censure of another general, Lincoln wrote, "I frequently make mistakes myself, in the many things I am compelled to do hastily...
...found last week at department-store sales. Thousands of people were snapping up presents at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's gift shops. Calvin and Sharon Petersen of Mantua, Utah, bought build-it-yourself paper medieval towns (price: $6.95). Cathy Smith of Medford, Ore., bought a framed print of Nathaniel Currier's lithograph The Favorite Cat ($38). For his mother, Steven Prince, a Los Angeles businessman, selected a shawl imprinted with the tree of life ($25). Says Prince: "Museums sell items of quality. They bring art to the people...
...Nathaniel Norment, Jr., the chair of Temple University’s African American Studies department, says his department does not look to Harvard for leadership, since Harvard focuses too much on traditional disciplines such as religion and philosophy and not enough on social activism and “the African American life situation as a unique academic discipline...
...Office of Alumni Affairs and Development, both said Scudder’s decision to leave was announced over a month ago. But the Boston Herald reported this week that his new firm will be called Aria Asset Management and will include fund managers Karen Firestone from Fidelity Investments and Nathaniel Jeppson from Lyceum Capital...
...Staff writer Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey can be reached at nhafrey@fas.harvard.edu