Word: abraham
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...been drowning in a syrupy sea of treacle. Almost every Thanksgiving cliche was in place by the mid-19th century: snow-thatched New England farmhouses, menus of turkey and cranberry sauce, families bowing their heads in grateful prayer, and wayward children dramatically returning home for the occasion. Even Abraham Lincoln in ushering in the modern national Thanksgiving holiday could not rise above what a latter-day President might call "the banality mode." Just weeks before he composed the soaring sentences of the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln began his 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation with this hackneyed conceit: "The year that is drawing toward...
Nonetheless, a subdued hope of movement surrounded the news last week that the U.S. had consented to repay $567 million in frozen Iranian assets. The agreement was reached after two days of negotiations between State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer and a senior adviser to Iran's President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The two met in the Hague, site of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal that was set up as part of the 1981 deal that freed the 62 American embassy hostages in Tehran. Both sides agreed that Iran will be paid most of the balance remaining...
...doggedly lobbied for readmission on the grounds that it would encourage rehabilitation. He contended that the Soviets as members of the W.P.A. would be subject to greater scrutiny and influence from abroad than they would be as outcasts. Others who favored readmission, including U.S. psychiatrists Alfred Freedman and Abraham Halpern, argued that during the past few years -- especially in the months preceding the Americans' March visit -- the Soviets had satisfied the criteria established for readmission in 1983, which called simply for "amelioration" of past abuses. In the year since the last W.P.A. meeting, for instance, the Soviets have released more...
...Administration prefers a less spacious definition. But attempts to limit the scope of the anathema make it meaningless. According to State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer, assassination is the "unlawful killing of particular individuals for political purposes." The key word is "unlawful." It's not unlawful to kill combatants in wartime, or even to kill noncombatant civilians in the course of a legitimate military operation. It is "self- defense" to kill a head of state who is masterminding terrorist operations that threaten the national security of the U.S., the argument goes. But if the assassination ban forbids nothing that...
...emphasis of tangential storylines and development of Abraham's role would have improved the movie's plot. Although the movie's ambitions overtake its accomplishments, die-hard Tom Selleck fans will like his performance, and F. Murray Abraham does not disappoint...