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Washingtonians took time off work the week of Aug. 22 to see the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall. Standing on a 4-acre plot alongside the Tidal Basin between the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, the new memorial depicts the civil-rights leader standing arms folded and holding a paper, part of a 30-foot stone edifice with an inscription from his 1963 "I have a dream" speech: "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."
Almost all of the memorials along the National Mall are to presidents or wars: King is the first African-American to be memorialized there. President Obama is set to deliver a dedication speech at the memorial Aug. 28, with a quarter million expected to attend. A private foundation, working on this project since the 1980s, raised almost all of the $120 million for the memorial, with about $10 million coming from Congress.
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The presence and remarks at the Memorial by President Barack Obama, the first African-American President of the United States, on the same date that Dr. King spoke at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington is an especially moving tribute to his
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For there was a day—especially after he finished ahead in the 1976 Iowa caucuses—that Mr. Carter was hailed as the intelligent outsider who was going to clean up Washington and forever change American politics. Associated Press (2) We can chart that
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Foreign Aid Stirs Debate Amid Egypt's ... - The Lincoln Tribune
A sudden surge in U.S. government funding to strengthen the political flowering of Egypt’s budding democracy has stirred up controversies in Cairo, where hopes run high for the formation of a broad array of new political parties. They include the full political spectrum, from conservative Islamists to liberal secularists. And whichever political faction ends up on top will help determine the level of foreign aid the U.S. will be willing to give in the coming years.
In Washington, members of Congress will return to work in early September and attempt to determine 2012 foreign aid packages for dozens of countries. What Congress decides to give Egypt next year could determine whether the country remains an ally. U.S. lawmakers will likely have to decide on Egypt’s foreign aid package long before the Egypt’s parliamentary elections, planned for November, and long before anyone knows who will prevail: Islamists or any of the dozens of new political parties that have sprouted up. The political stage changes from Friday to Friday, as thousands fill Cairo’s Tahrir Square to define their new roles in creating a popularly elected government. Recently, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Egypt’s interim government with no free election experience , was angered that U.S. funds were distributed directly to an estimated 30 new pro-democracy groups. State-owned media have harshly criticized some of those groups for accepting the funds. In this pre-election period, many critics claim the U.S. funding threatens the independence of Egyptian politics. As of late, U.S. and Egyptian diplomatic relations have turned frosty. A magazine run by the Egyptian government published an article calling the new U.S. ambassador to Cairo, Anne Patterson, the “ambassador from Hell.” A State Department spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, said the U.S.
