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...Longfellow museum is the 18th century mansion located just beyond Harvard Square at 105 Brattle Street, which was once the home of noted poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—who was also an English professor at Harvard in the mid-1800s. The house also served as George Washington’s first headquarters for the Continental Army...
Chandra Levy has been missing since May 1. Gary Condit was missing too, at least from the headlines, from Sept. 11 until Dec. 7, when he filed to run again for his congressional seat in California's 18th district in the agriculture-rich Central Valley. Television crews were waiting at the Stanislaus County courthouse, picking up a trail that had been erased from the front page by the terrorist attacks...
...Then there's the bag check issue. According to the ATSA every bag will be subject to some type of security check by January 18th, 2002. That's an optimistic assessment. Experts predict that while more bags certainly will be screened in the New Year, it's not clear exactly when we can expect all bags to be funneled through high-resolution x-ray machines before being loaded into a cargo hold...
...embrace a medieval notion of religion and society (except of course when it comes to weapons, when they'd like to be scientifically up-to the minute). They missed out completely on the Enlightenment notion that the sacred and the secular should be kept separate as well as the 18th century notion that mankind had finally entered the age of reason...
Christian VII, King of Denmark in the latter half of the 18th century, was madder than a host of Hamlets. His minders hired an idealistic young physician to take care of him, but when the doctor used his access to the weak-minded King to take control of the nation--and to romance the hot-blooded young Queen--things went very rotten indeed. Enquist, a celebrated Swedish novelist, turns this actual historical incident into an enthralling fable of the temptations of power--and a surprisingly poignant love story...