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...Morison's bark is worse than his bite. At the age of fifty-four, the scholar with an almost forbidding air of formality has mellowed into an affable squire with a Pickwickian sense of humor. Though his main interests are still U. S. History before 1860 and Christopher Columbus, to hear him talk one would think that life consisted solely of sailing, horseback riding, and the tinkle of slender glasses filled with wine. Back in 1917 Professor Morison talked differently. The call to arms saw him enlist as a private, and though he never got beyond Camp Devens, the Army...
...leading historian firmly established by texts such as the classic "Maritime History of Massachusetts," published the greatest work of his career. From the tumultuous reception accorded it by critics and public alike, the monumental "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" promises to remain for all posterity the classic biography of Columbus. At all events, it justifies the inscription on one of the Professor's most cherished possessions--a photograph of Franklin Roosevelt which he autographed "To my friend Sam Morison--Columbus Junior...
...birth of Columbus Junior goes back to the summer of 1916, when at the age of 29, he was given charge of History 10. Though that course was intended to cover from the time of the Vikings to 1770, and he had meant to prepare his lectures during the summer months, the opening of the College year found the Professor no further than the voyages of Columbus. Says he, "I kept just ahead of the class that year." From that time on the brainchild grew steadily. After a trip to Lisbon had established conclusively that Portuguese claims to prior discovery...
...instantly have five people who know exactly what I'm talking about respond." Brown's Moms with Attitude site gets an average of 300 hits a day. Of course, any blog, "private" or not, risks being discovered on the World Wide Web. Dawn Friedman, 34, a mom from Columbus, Ohio, kept a blog, This Woman's Work, without telling people she knew. But when her mother Googled her way onto the blog and learned her daughter was planning to adopt, she got upset and asked Friedman, "When were you going to tell me this?" Says Friedman: "I guess...
...didn't seem like a problem. "We're thinking, O.K., we're getting 18% of the pot. That's reasonable," remembers an aide for a New York member of Congress. Then, for 2004 money, the Department of Homeland Security announced an even longer list of 50 cities, including Columbus, Ohio, and Fresno, Calif. And the dollars shrank to $675 million. At that point, Weiner says, he lost heart. "We found a solution, and we're even screwing that up. We have some cities on there that don't even have minor-league baseball teams," he says. "Homeland security is just...