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One of the Alvarezes' staunchest critics has been William Clemens, a paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley. After systematically sampling parts of the eastern Montana area, he declared that the layer of iridium and the bones of the last surviving dinosaur were too far apart to share any meaningful...
Other members of the pitching staff going north will be Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, Roger Clemens, Bruce Hurst, Bruce Kison, Mark Clear, Bob Stanley, Steve Crawford and Bobby Ojeda.
To many a reader, Mark Twain is the foremost American novelist and his masterwork is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This year, the book's centenary, has brought several Huck Finn stage productions. It has also brought a renewed outcry from some who want the novel barred from school libraries...
But how does one capitalize of such an unexpected success? Mark Twain followed Tom Sawver with a slew of spin-offs, some, like Huckleberry Finn, classics in their own right: others, like Tom Sawyer, Detective, obvious efforts to keep the Clemens' larder well-stocked at a minimum of effort.
The Declaration of Independence is there, and the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation. But they are just the summit of a mountain of American treasures that are preserved in a vast building on Constitution Avenue in Washington. This historical storehouse, 50 years old this year, is celebrated...