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The $115 million complex is the most comprehensive Lincoln exhibit so far and the only presidential library run by a state government. It has 1,500 manuscripts, including a copy of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's handwriting, and troves of artifacts like his small wooden deathbed. It's also...
And what's with all these well-regimented drills? A battalion of cadets goose-steps along a tennis court. Not far away, another uniformed squad executes a series of elaborate routines with shields. A dozen little girls, clad in shocking-pink leotards, parade forward and wriggle in formation to the...
Mydans would take many such pictures of the uprooted and crushed: a man carrying the body of his wife through the chaos of an earthquake in Japan, a young Korean mother as she flees the fighting around Seoul, a Vietnamese grandmother during the Tet offensive in Viet Nam. Against these...
Like any high church, West Point relishes pomp. On crisp autumn Saturdays, tourists flock to the vast greensward known as the Plain to watch the corps of cadets parade by in their gray swallowtail coats adorned with gold braid. The essential West Point, however, is never on public display. It...
In addition to enduring military training, parade drill and required athletics, cadets carry a heavier than normal college course load that is long on engineering and math. Sleep, not surprisingly, is regarded as a luxury. To stay awake in class, cadets who begin dozing off in their seats are permitted...