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...articles treated humans as no more than breeding animals. Humans differ from the other animals because we have been given the gifts of reason and free will. In your attempts to bring your readers knowledge of the human condition, you labored under a curse. As William Faulkner might have put it, you wrote not of the heart but of the glands. Roger Bonilla SUNNYVALE, CALIF...
When Bennet Cerf, co-founder of Random House, was asked to describe the ideal best seller, he supposedly suggested the title Lincoln's Doctor's Dog. Pitches itself, doesn't it? There have been more books about Abraham Lincoln than any other American; this month brings us William Lee Miller's President Lincoln (Knopf; 497 pages), Allen C. Guelzo's Lincoln and Douglas (Simon & Schuster; 384 pages) and Did Lincoln Own Slaves? (Pantheon; 311 pages) by Gerald J. Prokopowicz, among others. That Lincoln is a suitable subject for scholarly work nobody would deny, but the volume of it suggests something...
...that he would post on all 19 sports books he runs for Station Casinos. Manteris, author of Super Bookie, was responsible for making proposition bets a huge business when, in 1985, he offered 20-to-1 odds at Caesars Palace that an incredibly fat defensive lineman named William (the Refrigerator) Perry would score a Super Bowl touchdown. Unfortunately for Manteris, there was a rare outpouring of public affection for the obese, and when the Fridge scored, the casino lost six figures. "But it got media attention," says Manteris. "From that moment on, Super Bowl props became a big deal." Unfortunately...
...WILLIAM RUTO Ruto, part of Odinga's inner circle, and his ilk are key to this crisis. Yes, they attend peace talks, but they're accused of inciting ethnic violence on the side...
...Party—which was the first to advocate a graduated income tax, direct election of Senators, and the eight-hour workday—won almost 10 percent of the vote in the 1892 election. The Democrats were so shocked that in 1896 they claimed the former Populist candidate, William Jennings Bryan, for their own, after adopting the party’s most attractive planks. The Republicans, who won that election, ultimately enacted many populist measures. The Populists lost the election, but their vision of America had been incorporated into the mainstream. Even dyed-in-the-wool Democrats or Republicans...