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...Essay, Henry Grunwald refers to Emma Lazarus' words "the wretched refuse of your teeming shore" on the Statue of Liberty as "awful" poetry. I think they are magnificent and moving. I bet millions of immigrants agree with me. Robert W. Driver Indian Rocks Beach...
...both times he has unfurled his gentle humor and insisted that the play go on. The second drama is just starting. But there is no reason to believe that the threat of cancer will inhibit him any more than the attempted assassination did four years ago. His friends bet it will be just the opposite. He wants this act to be his best, whatever time he may have left...
...addresses the past again. "Did we have to drop the Bomb? You bet your life we did. I wrote an article a couple of years ago recounting my experiences as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations General Assembly Second Session on Disarmament [June 1982]. Outside the U.S. building a group was sitting and marching in silence in memory of Hiroshima. Not Pearl Harbor but Hiroshima. No one seems to realize that without Pearl Harbor there wouldn't have been a Hiroshima." He goes back to the beginning...
...seems to rankle Neuharth. "Editors who like to write or edit long stories don't like this paper," he says with equanimity. "Notice I didn't say 'like to read' long stories." Ask Neuharth if USA Today is here to stay, and he barely pauses. "If I had to bet the rent money," he says, "I'd bet it." --By James Kelly. Reported by Lawrence Mondi/New York, with other bureaus
...April is the cruelest month according to one Harvard grad, but it doesn’t have to be for the City of Boston. HUBRIS solutions are your office’s best bet to patch up the Big Dig before it becomes the world’s longest waterslide. You scratch our back, and we’ll scratch yours—in the Harvard way, with the mouth-end of our cigarette holders...