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...such a personal touch to this formality? Ask Pat Buchanan, the polemicist turned candidate, whose aggressive effort to shift the G.O.P. rightward threatens to siphon off enough conservative votes to embarrass Bush at the outset of what could be a tough re-election bid. Buchanan "deserves the Christopher Columbus award," quips Democratic state chairman Chris Spirou, "because he forced Bush to discover New Hampshire...
Christopher Columbus, hero of 1492, came under attack as a ruthless invader. A bad year, all in all, for dead white males . . . And some live ones: Mark Spitz and Bjorn Borg hoped to relive their heydays but found it takes more than high self-esteem to be a world-class athlete . . . The 1970s were the years that taste forgot. Why celebrate platform shoes and Partridge Family LPs? Keep them in the attic where they belong...
...Columbus Day sailed by this year, it left in its wake countless new histories, a handful of novels, two films and an opera. The overwhelming number of these seem to feed, like high school history texts, on the longtime popular myths that have secured for Columbus his own holiday and a lounge chair in the American imagination...
...ports. Finding his wife and child in Puerto de Santa Maria as they prepare to embark, and unable to detain them, Cabezon promises to make his fortune and find them in Flanders. He then takes the road to Palos in search of a man he has heard of named Columbus. The novel closes, "We left port by way of the Saltes River, half an hour before sunup, on Friday, the third day of August, in the year of Our Lord, 1492. Deo Gratias...
...movie Dances With Wolves, Secondine says, probably helped to heighten awareness of Native Americans on campus. The upcoming quincentennial of Columbus's landing in America, he says, will also make Native Americans more visible...