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...missed her, "I miss you guys all the same.") He has to keep the arrangement semisecret because polygamy is illegal in Utah and banned by the mainstream Mormon Church, or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Oh, and one of his fathers-in-law (Harry Dean Stanton), the patriarch of a fundamentalist polygamist compound, is shaking him down for a cut of his hardware business. The Osmond family these Utahans...
...professor at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has been awarded the George Eastman Professorship at the University of Oxford, a prestigious visiting professorship that allows “American scholars of the highest distinction” to lecture at Oxford for one year. Frederick Schauer, Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the KSG, will serve as a visiting professor for the 2007-08 academic year, and will concurrently hold a fellowship at Balliol College at Oxford. Schauer, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the First Amendment, political theory, and constitutional law, said he first...
They began losing games in ways that even the Cubs hadn't invented. Why, they blew one game on a walk-off balk. Now, any kind of balk is as improbable as a lunar eclipse. But to have your newly acquired veteran, Mike Stanton, come on to relief pitch in the bottom of the 10th, a man on first and third, and have him lose the game with some imperceptible twitch of a muscle, spotted only by a man in blue 70 ft. away who then waves home the winning run without the benefit of a single batted ball...
...brooded over perceived slights, he argued that "no man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention." So rare in a politician, this attitude allowed him to form friendships and alliances with those who had previously opposed him. In the 1850s, Edwin Stanton had humiliated him when they were partners in a law case, referring to him as a "long-armed ape," refusing to deal with him as an equal, deliberately shunning him at a hotel, never even opening the brief he had painstakingly prepared. Yet, when the time came for Lincoln to replace...
...have noticed it specially, saying it was better at this time not to be making points of etiquette & personal dignity." Another story is told of the time when a Congressman had received Lincoln's authorization for something to be carried out by the War Department. When War Secretary Stanton refused to honor the order, the disappointed petitioner returned to Lincoln, telling him that Stanton had not only countermanded the order but had called the President a damn fool for issuing it. "Did Stanton say I was a damn fool?" Lincoln asked. "He did, sir, and repeated it." At which point...