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...copy of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's handwriting, and troves of artifacts like his small wooden deathbed. It's also the glitziest presidential museum, a special-effects parade of ghostly holograms and mannequin Abes. "Lincoln is presented in a way people can easily digest," said executive director Richard Norton Smith. "If you want the icon, go to the memorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reimagining Abe | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...earlier days of the Republic, however, Presidents and their entourages sometimes felt that their own programs, if not the national security itself, would be vulnerable if a grave illness were admitted. As John B. Moses and Wilbur Cross relate in the book Presidential Courage (W.W. Norton Co., 1980), many Presidents suffered, usually in silence and secrecy, from chronic and painful diseases. George Washington had a giant benign tumor in his leg and was the victim of rheumatism and repeated pneumonia. Andrew Jackson, famous for his stamina and courage, was described in a contemporary article in the Boston Medical School Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suffering In Secrecy | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...companies to hand over documents, take statements and carry out onsite searches, including unannounced raids. The elephants need not fear the hunters just yet, but "they really are going to put a lot of effort and resources into this," says Louise Mills, a senior associate of international-law firm Norton Rose, who advises companies on competition issues. "Everything that happens over the next few months is going to be noted, and for those companies that are up to something that is not strictly within the rules, they'd be well advised to stop and maybe even own up. Saying sorry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

...modernizing the Fogg is making more of the building handicapped-accessible. Many of the museum’s largest and most attractive lecture rooms and exhibition halls are currently inaccessible by wheelchair. Because the Fogg was built long before the American Disabilities Act of 1990, rooms like the Norton Lecture Hall, which seats four hundred, are not handicapped-accessible and frequently underused. The building remains exempt from ADA standards, since plans currently exist to renovate...

Author: By Mary CATHERINE Brouder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Are Museums Out of the Picture? | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...another class centered around international current events-—Government 1790, “American Foreign Policy.” The class, which is taught again this year by Robert L. Paarlberg, a visiting professor from Wellesley, boasts 318 students. The class relocated from Emerson Hall to the Norton Lecture Hall in the Fogg Museum to accommodate its large enrollment...

Author: By Jennifer X. Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Globalization Core Is Second-Largest Course | 2/16/2005 | See Source »

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