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...Ward Silver, SEATTLE...
...country. Called a pharaoh by his opponents, Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves after a "vow before God"; he invoked the Exodus at Gettysburg. When he died, Lincoln, like Washington before him, was compared to Moses. "There is no historic figure more noble than that of the Jewish lawgiver," Henry Ward Beecher eulogized. "There is scarcely another event in history more touching than his death." Until now. "Again a great leader of the people has passed through toil, sorrow, battle and war, and come near to the promised land of peace, into which he might not pass over...
Unlike Cambridge, which elects representatives to its nine City Council seats by citywide vote, New Haven votes for its thirty aldermen by district. As a result, Yale, which occupies a large portion of the city’s first ward, has historically been successful in putting an Eli on the board...
MOUSSA RATEB, a former pig owner in Cairo, blasting the Egyptian government for ordering the slaughter of the nation's pigs to ward off swine flu. Since the April decree, mounds of garbage have piled up on the country's streets...
...also said she wanted to find a way to maintain the library’s august character when selecting a means to ward off would-be thieves...