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This month, in the holiday-gifts section of the Stein Mart in Charleston, S.C., a musical fish could be heard singing Christmas carols across the aisle from a miniature fountain retailing at $24.97. Both gadgets promise to be top sellers this season. But unlike the $19.97 Big Mouth Billy Bass, the desktop waterfall may outlive its novelty status, drawing on ancient themes to soothe a stressed...
There is only one known written account of the event, which came to light many years later, in 1946. It is a letter from "a gentleman in Philadelphia to his friend in Charleston, dated October 20, 1792" (as noted by the Charleston, S.C., City Gazette & Daily Advertiser), that describes "the first stone" being laid "in the southwest corner of the president's house...
...letter, conventional wisdom had it that the cornerstone had been placed in the northeast corner of the White House, since it was Masonic practice to choose that corner. In a 1901 renovation, paint was scraped from a few stones in a vain effort to locate an inscription. Once the Charleston letter surfaced, interest immediately shifted to the southwest corner of the White House...
...startling as the Charleston case is, it is only one of hundreds in the past few years pitting women's rights against the putative rights of fetuses. These cases first flourished in the '80s, and have made a resurgence as abortion-rights foes look for new battles at a time when politicians of both major parties say little about abortion. For instance, conservatives have helped pass laws in 19 states that automatically invalidate a "right-to-die" living will for a woman if she gets pregnant; 11 other states invalidate such a document if birth is possible, according to Rachel...
...Fountain Inn, a grand eating and drinking emporium in Georgetown. They shuffled down the dusty road to the White House site led by the Freemasons, who were followed by the federal district commissioners, and behind them came "gentlemen of the town and neighborhood" (as described in a Charleston, S.C., newspaper that provided the only written record of the event). There was a moving oration by the grand master; wet mortar was spread on a foundation block; a polished brass plate with the names of the dignitaries and the date was pressed into the mortar and the cornerstone lowered onto...