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...after school to play any part they would give a kid. McCarter, he says, became his family. He had lost the security of his real family: his parents divorced when he was three and his brother Ben a year younger. His father is the poet and literary scholar Franklin (F.D.) Reeve. His mother Barbara Pitney Lamb remarried, a stockbroker, Tristan Johnson, who was a kind and generous stepfather to Reeve and had four children from a previous marriage. Then the Johnsons had two children of their own. F.D. Reeve also remarried, adding three more children. In the separate civilizations...
...18th century, several newspapers published anonymous and pseudonymous letters and articles criticizing British management of the American colonies. The author of these often satirical treatises, which did much to further the cause of revolution, was Benjamin Franklin. Joe Klein [PUBLIC EYE, July 29] is no Ben Franklin. The American Revolution should probably not even be mentioned in the same breath with the Clinton presidential campaign. But there is a tradition, older than America itself, of writers' being less than honest about their work to make an honest point. ERIN COOMBS-FRIEDMAN San Jose, California...
Historic turning points in social policy are not always obvious when they occur. Certainly Franklin D. Roosevelt did not foresee that some provisions of the Social Security Act he signed in 1935 would burgeon over the next 61 years into a mammoth federally financed and regulated welfare program. Last week, though, the equally historic nature of the decision facing Bill Clinton was clear not just to the White House but the whole nation. So the President turned his deliberations over a radical overhaul of F.D.R.'s welfare system into a solemn little drama...
...distinctive virtues: civic participation. "Americans of all ages, all conditions and all dispositions," he famously wrote, "constantly form associations." In France, Tocqueville observed, a social movement is instigated by the government, in England by the nobility, but in America by an association. Tocqueville and small d democrats from Ben Franklin (who started a volunteer fire brigade) to John F. Kennedy (who told Americans not to ask but to do) have warned that the health of American democracy depends on vigorous civic participation...
...race winning streak in the 200. There are also the three sprinters who will be trying to keep the U.S. from losing its first Olympic 100 on its own soil: Dennis Mitchell, Mike Marsh and Jon Drummond, a preacher's son who still sings with the gospel group Kirk Franklin and the Family...