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Just as the summer of '69 echoed across the changing American landscape, the Thanksgiving of 1969 served as a snapshot, for many of us, of the changes going on in our own families, and forced on us an awakening to the grownup world for which we were not quite ready. More ... When Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind a large collection of unpublished material. The editor, Robert Hirst, explains in the introduction to this book that Samuel Langhorne Clemens would not have "been embarrassed" by the publication of manuscripts that he chose not to submit in his lifetime. More ... DALLAS - If you were to meet Boone Pickens, you would likely be impressed. Certainly not because he would try to impress you. It is just that he is bright, considerate, and articulate— a man who strikes me as having empathy for his fellow man. More ... |
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