A City for Lincoln

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A consistently exciting and never predictable series."--Associated Press
When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found.
Lieutenant CDS Vincent D'Agosta quickly takes the lead. He knows his investigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so D'Agosta is delighted when FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast shows up at the crime scene assigned to the case. "I feel rather like Brer Rabbit being thrown into the briar patch," Pendergast tells D'Agosta, "because I have found you here, in charge. Just like when we first met, back at the Museum of Natural History."
But neither Pendergast nor D'Agosta are prepared for what lies ahead. A diabolical presence is haunting the greater metropolitan area, and Grace Ozmian was only the first of many victims to be murdered . . . and decapitated. Worse still, there's something unique to the city itself that has attracted the evil eye of the killer. As mass hysteria sets in, Pendergast and D'Agosta find themselves in the crosshairs of an opponent who has threatened the very lifeblood of the city. It'll take all of Pendergast's skill to unmask this most dangerous foe-let alone survive to tell the tale.

In this issue:

COMMENT
"The Debate Debate", by Hendrik Hertzberg: Why we can’t get enough of them.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN
"Troubadour", by Alec Wilkinson: JD Souther in the American Songbook, at Lincoln Center.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE
"Blackberry Season", by James Surowiecki: Where R. I. M. went wrong.

A REPORTER AT LARGE
"Transfiguration", by Raffi Khatchadourian: One man’s journey to a new face.

History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes, and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation.

The Rise of the Cities discusses the factors leading to the settlement and growth of cities in the United States and examines some of the social problems that are part of city life. The authors explore the role of technological advances, governing strategies, and social welfare.

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In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Special Agent Pendergast must stop a serial killer who is terrorizing New York City with a trail of headless victims.
When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found.
Lieutenant CDS Vincent D'Agosta quickly takes the lead. He knows his investigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so D'Agosta is delighted when FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast shows up at the crime scene assigned to the case. "I feel rather like Brer Rabbit being thrown into the briar patch," Pendergast tells D'Agosta, "because I have found you here, in charge. Just like when we first met, back at the Museum of Natural History."
But neither Pendergast nor D'Agosta are prepared for what lies ahead. A diabolical presence is haunting the greater metropolitan area, and Grace Ozmian was only the first of many victims to be murdered . . . and decapitated. Worse still, there's something unique to the city itself that has attracted the evil eye of the killer. As mass hysteria sets in, Pendergast and D'Agosta find themselves in the crosshairs of an opponent who has threatened the very lifeblood of the city. It'll take all of Pendergast's skill to unmask this most dangerous foe-let alone survive to tell the tale.

Can Nate Wright get any cooler? Not according to Nate himself. He’s already P.S. 38’s rockin’est drummer, finest poet (check out his haiku about brazil nuts), and deepest thinker--in his own mind. But does Nate have what it takes to hang with Marcus, leader of the school’s most notorious posse? Or will he decide that being cool isn’t all it’s cracked up to be? Read Say Good-bye to Dork City… and say hello to lots of laughs!

This foray into the East, where Lincoln was still a relative mystery, was for him a crucial moment. Still an unannounced candidate for president, he recognized an opportunity to display himself, clarify his views on urgent questions of the day, and sense the viability of his national candidacy. He would speak in the wake of John Brown’s raid the previous October, which had galvanized Southern fears of slave insurrections and brought a heightened sense of isolation to the South. At the Cooper Institute, Lincoln sought to address the consuming issue of whether the federal government had the constitutional power to control slavery in the western territories. He also had to deal with Southern distrust of the Republican party, which had been formed just six years earlier by anti-slavery activists. Finally, Lincoln considered the moral question of slavery, which he found intrinsic to any discussion of Southern desires and Northern proposals. His remarks were not designed to placate the South but to make clear where he stood—and where he thought the Union should stand.

Renowned muckraker and investigative reporter Lincoln Steffens recounts a series of historic corruption scandals in cities of the United States.
The various backhanders and embezzlements occurring in the urban councils of the USA in the late 19th century are recalled here. Though the country was in a period of great development and advancement, this rise to industrial prowess was accompanied by an egregious culture of dishonesty. The development of ‘old boy networks’, whereby a group of insiders would conspire to siphon public funds and favour one another in matters of politics or business, became a serious problem.
Steffens was a leading opponent of such nepotism, and did his utmost to root it out. In this book are images he gained of dishonest accounting; these, among other documentary evidence, led to certain corrupt officials losing their position and facing charges. Although these individuals were ensconced within the halls of power, Steffens’ commitment to principles of a strong yet efficient government with checks on corruption fueled his desire to play a part in curbing dishonesty.
It is with genuine disgust that Steffens describes the cozy sinecures of Philadelphia sleaze, the flagrant abuses in St. Louis, and how Chicago’s corruption played into its problems of violent crime.

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In the thrilling Peter Fallon and Evangeline Carrington mystery series from New York Times bestselling author and “master storyteller” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) William Martin, a rare-book expert and his girlfriend are treasure hunters who track down documents and valuables seemingly gone for good. Their adventures place them on the trail of a lost draft of the Constitution in 1770s Philadelphia, a valuable box of missing bonds in 1780s New York City, and into a race across Washington D.C. for an incredibly important historical document: Abraham Lincoln’s diary.

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This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world’s most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becoming places in which the quality of life can be improved. They focus on how cities have been made secure during times of instability, how their inhabitants have consumed everything from the simplest of foods to the most expensive luxuries, and how they have been planned as ideal spaces. Drawing examples from across the country, this book offers comparisons between different cities, highlights continuities across time and space—and in doing so may provide solutions to some of the problems that continue to affect Chinese cities today.

Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard LINCOLN CITY - Chris Staley hadn't been on the night shift for more than five minutes Wednesday when he flipped on the lights of his Ford Crown Victoria for the first time, pulling over a vehicle with a headlight out on Highway 101.

The defendants exception to the admission of the testimony of marshal Redden given at the preliminary hearing is without merit. His death was admitted, the parties were the same, the same matters of fact were in issue and the charges in both proceedings grew out of the same happening. The record disclosed that defendants counsel exercised the right of cross examination at the preliminary hearing fully and without limitation by the Court. Under these circumstances the evidence was clearly admissable. Commonwealth v. Rhyal, 274 Pa. 401, 410; Lee v. State, 124 Miss. 398; 122 A. L. R. 425, 429, 430 ; 159 A. L. R. 1240, 1246 ; 5 Wig. Ev. (3d. ed.), s. 1371; 23 C. J. S.,, ss. 894-896. See also, Orr v. Hadley, 36 N.H. 575, 580.

The respondent contends that the indictment was faulty, first, because it does not set out that the respondent was "the officer, agent, or servant of a corporation, public or private, or the clerk, servant or agent of a person within the meaning of R. L., c. 450, s. 28 ", and secondly, he objects because it does not "fully and plainly, substantially and formally", describe the crime of which he is accused. Both these exceptions are overruled. The State Liquor Commission created by R. L., c. 170, and for which the defendant worked, is in effect a State agency and a part of the State government. St. Regis Co. v. Board, 92 N.H. 164, 166, 167. The State itself is a body politic. Const., Pt. II, Art. 1. Under the provisions of R. L., c. 7, s. 9, the word person may "extend and be applied to bodies... politic as well as to individuals." Dinnin v. Hutchins, 75 N.H. 470, 471. All monies and property in possession of the commission or its employees belong to the State which the commission and its employees serve and to which they are responsible. It may fairly be said that the Commission in the realm of facts "has but imaginary existence apart from that of the State itself" and that the respondent was a servant of the State. See St. Regis Co. v. Board, supra. This is in keeping with the facts of the situation and consistent with the comprehensive construction which our decisions hold should be given to R. L., 450, s. 28, State v. Barter, 58 N.H. 604, 605.

Elton H. Gibson appeals the dismissal of his petition on rehearing in the Nebraska Workmen's Compensation Court. We affirm. During the year preceding the incident in question, Gibson, age 61, was employed as a Handi-van driver by the City of Lincoln (Lincoln Transportation System). The Handi-van transports handicapped and elderly persons, and the van driver must assist patrons entering and leaving the van. Gibson was in good health at the time of the incident, had been smoking an average of one package of cigarettes daily, and, several years before the incident, had experienced chest pains while shoveling snow, an activity discontinued for some time past.

Argued: April 2, 2001 JUDGE PELLEGRINI The School District of the City of York (School District) petitions for review of an order of the State Charter Appeal Board (Board) reversing its decision to deny Lincoln-Edison Charter School's (Lincoln-Edison) charter school application.1 On November 15, 1999, Lincoln-Edison, a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation, submitted a charter school application to the School District seeking to convert Lincoln Elementary School pursuant to the Charter School Law (Law).2

MAGILL, Circuit Judge. The City of Lincoln, et al. appeal, and Officer John S. Ways cross-appeals, from a final judgment entered in Ways' favor in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. In a dual action, Ways, who is of black and American Indian descent, claimed that by permitting numerous offensive racial incidents to occur in the City of Lincoln Police Department (LPD) over the course of his sixteen-year career, his employers and supervisors violated 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq. (Title VII). The defendants in the district court were the City of Lincoln, the LPD, and, in their official capacities, Chief of Police B. Dean Leitner, Police Captain John Hewitt, and Police Sargeant Arthur Bandars.1

Robert J. Willis filed his negligence action against the City of Lincoln under the Political Subdivisions Tort Claims Act, Neb. Rev. Stat. 13-901 et seq. (Reissue 1987), on account of bodily injury to Willis in his wheelchair, which was being placed aboard a Lincoln Transportation System (LTS) "Handi-Van," a service supplied by the city. In its answer, the city specifically denied that Willis had satisfied the requirements for a suit under the Political Subdivisions Tort Claims Act and filed a motion for summary judgment, alleging that Willis had failed to comply with the notice requirement contained in 13-919(1), which in part provides: "Every claim against a political subdivision permitted under this act shall be forever barred, unless within one year after such claim accrued, the claim is made in writing to the governing body." Section 13-905 of the Political Subdivisions Tort Claims Act pertinently provides:

This appeal concerns exemptions from local real estate taxation granted to Appellees, certain Philadelphia taxpayers, by Appellant, the Board of Revision of Taxes of the City and County of Philadelphia (the "Board").

Heavican, C.J., Wright, Connolly, Gerrard, Stephan, McCormack, and Miller-Lerman, JJ. The City of Lincoln (the City) loaned money to PMI Franchising, Inc. (PMI), pursuant to a project financing agreement. James E. Hershberger and Sandra M. Hershberger were guarantors on the loan. PMI failed to repay any of the installment payments, and the City, in a letter dated February 28, 1995, exercised its right to accelerate the debt under the agreement. The City filed suit against the Hershbergers on September 20, 1999. The district court granted the Hershbergers' motion for summary judgment, concluding that the statute of limitations had run on the City's claim. The City appealed. Because the statute of limitations began to run when the City exercised its right to accelerate the debt, we conclude that the City's claim is not barred by the 5-year statute of limitations. We reverse, and remand for further proceedings.

This case involves the questions whether a contract for the conditional sale of a motor vehicle violated the requirements contained in subdivision (a) of section 2982 of the Civil Code and, if so, what was the effect of the violation.*fn1

As modified November 11, 2002; no change the judgment. The petition for rehearing denied.

When a beautiful woman walks into the office of Anastasia Charles — aka Charlie — with a story about a violent husband and a kidnapped kid, Charlie’s private investigator instincts sit up and pay attention. With $2000 on her desk, $8000 more the moment she finds the husband, and the chance to be a hero and rescue a kid… how can Charlie say no?

All she has to do is find the guy, after all. What could possibly go wrong?

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About Marcelle Dubé:
Marcelle Dubé grew up near Montreal. After trying out a number of different provinces—not to mention Belgium—she settled in the Yukon, where people still outnumber carnivores, but not by much. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. You can find them on Smashwords. Learn more about her and her other published work, including novels, at www.marcellemdube.com.

Acting in accordance with the recommendation of the appellees, the City of Lincoln, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Lincoln Package Beverage Association, the Culler Neighborhood Association, and Joe Quattrocchi, and pursuant to the Nebraska Liquor Control Act, Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 53-101 to 53-1,121 (Reissue 1988 & Cum. Supp. 1990), the Lincoln City Council (Council) denied 10 applications for class B liquor licenses filed by the appellant, Kwik Shop, Inc. (Kwik Shop). These licenses would allow Kwik Shop to sell beer at retail outlets within the City of Lincolns corporate limits for consumption away from the existing convenience store premises sought to be licensed. Upon appeal by Kwik Shop, the Lancaster County District Court affirmed the actions of the Council based upon § 53-134 (Cum. Supp. 1990). Kwik Shop challenged the constitutionality of that version of § 53-134, contending that the statutory standards were arbitrary and analogous to the prior version of § 53-134 which was declared unconstitutional by this court. After the district courts affirmance, Kwik Shop timely appealed to this court. It asks that we reverse the judgment of the district court, declare the statute unconstitutional, and order the Council to issue the licenses. We reverse, and remand with directions.