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...Reznick, senior curator. Founded in 1862, the institution is at its ninth location, on the campus of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The setting is appropriate, since the museum traces changes in the practice of medicine during various wars. Its collection of artifacts includes the bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln and Paul Revere's dental equipment (bet you didn't know that in addition to being a silversmith, Revere was a dentist). For those who love literature, the 73-year-old Folger Shakespeare Library, tel: (1-202) 544 4600; www.folger.edu, has the world's largest collection of the Bard...
...comfortable mythological figure. And of course, in one sad way to me, there is a tendency to make him a leader of his people, to reduce him to just doing something for black people. When you see him interacting with Johnson and negotiating with congressmen and marching with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, we realize how ecumenical he was. The overall lesson here is he's a leader, and the movement is leading all of America. And that's the real emotional resonance that you get even with Rosa Parks, where we have this paradox that we have an emotional connection...
...know. I get that question all the time. Usually what I say is they're rare. Any kind of overarching leader. Why aren't there more Abraham Lincolns? They're very rare. They're a product of the times, and of course, King's time was a time when we were wrestling with what the free world meant. Our survival stands on what its inner meaning is, and also of course, he arrived because he was a surprise. Nobody expected an overarching leader of American freedom to be a black man. I mean people did not see that...
...best performance. Some people have said, "Why did you make that little movie when you could have been doing something important?" And I said, "Well, at the time it was important." And if I find something dark and historical--like this Doris Kearns Goodwin book [Team of Rivals, about Abraham Lincoln] I'm working on now--I'll do that. It's just how things work out. It's all about timing...
...clinching the game and the match with a lopsided score of 9-1. At No. 7, junior Mihir Sheth lost the first game, 7-9, but wore down his opponent down the stretch, winning the following three games, 9-5, 9-3, 9-3. At No. 8, senior Ryan Abraham dropped a hard-fought second game to Michael Gelinas of the Big Red—a game in which the score was tied at 8-8 and 9-9, and eventually won by Gelinas—but recovered to win the next two games and the match...