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Vince A. Finnegan, long-time photographer for the Lincoln Institute.  It is with sadness that we learned of the death of Vince A. Finnegan, early in October.  Since the beginning of the Lincoln Institute, Vince has been there to shoot those special moments setting forth much of the history of our effort.  He died of a stroke in Florida at the age of 88.  Vince had a long and distinguished career as a news and commercial photographer…

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Turmoil at Gallaudet University.  Can a school for the deaf embrace genuine diversity?  In October hundreds of students took over buildings, shut down classes, blocked entrances and slept in tents at the nations or the worlds only liberal arts university devoted to the deaf, Gallaudet University.  The protest is over the schools designated new president, Provost Jane Fernandes, whom they accuse of a number of shortcomings as provost, her previous position, that range from not promoting racial diversity to not providing security.  The real issue is, however, what some people at the university call the deaf culture…

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Finally, the millions killed by communist regimes will be memorialized in Washington.  The groundbreaking ceremony for a memorial honoring the millions of people killed by communist regimes was held in September near the U.S. Capitol.  Elected officials and representatives of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, founded in 1994, took shovels in hand to officially begin the project…

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