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...Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. I stood in view of the spot where Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held one of their famous debates during their race for the U.S. Senate. The only way for Lincoln to get onto the podium was to squeeze his lanky frame through a window, whereupon he reportedly remarked, "At last I have finally gone through college." Waiting for the soon-to-be graduates to assemble, I thought that even as Lincoln lost that Senate race, his arguments that day would result, centuries later, in my occupying the same seat that he coveted...
...biggest newfangled feature is the Bluetooth connectivity. If you have a Bluetooth-enabled phone (and they're becoming more common), you can set your phone to send calls to the Uniden. Why? So that you can leave your mobile phone in a spot near the window where it gets the best reception, yet carry on animated conversations walking all around the house with the Uniden cordless handset. The only restriction is that your mobile needs to be within about 30 feet of the cordless phone's base station, and preferably a lot closer...
...hear the baying of an animal in torment. It is Batà, who, as he explains, suffers fearful convulsions each night of the full moon. A scholar of his own illness, Batà instructs Sidora to lock herself away from him, but as the moon waxes he breaks through a window and attacks her. Come the next full moon, Sidora is prepared for the worst and the best. Her handsome cousin Saro (Massimo Bonetti) will protect her and, if God hears her prayers, fulfill the desperate passion they have for each other. That night, a cloud passes across the moon, sparing Bat?...
...train were her ten attendants, including her cousin Caroline Kennedy as maid of honor. Schwarzenegger had arrived the day before from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he had been shooting his latest film. On his way to the church, he slowed his limousine out front, rolled down the window and, holding a cigar, flashed a huge grin at the crowd...
...Medal of Honor. Dolores proves her valor by overcoming generations of inertia and fatalism. She does it by demonstrating that behind the male swagger there is usually an unsteady little boy in need of a firm maternal hand. When a neighborhood Rambo threatens to shoot at police from his window, Dolores arms herself with a basket of wet wash and gets him to help her hang it: "She held her hand out and Ralphie gave her the blue pajamas. She pinned them to the line and then moved them out, boldly, the pulleys on the far end of the line...