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...alights in a wonderland, meets magical or malevolent animals and an old villain and is rejuvenated by the simple act of letting go of his obsession and caring for someone else. By the end of his adventure, he's a movie superhero, an older version of Indiana Jones. He also realizes that the small pleasures often trump the big thrills. Oz may provide death-defying fun, but what's the matter with Kansas...
...behold, the atheist bus war that raged through London earlier this year has led to the opening of a front in the U.S. The Chicago ads were purchased this month (for a total of $5,000) by the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign...
...although you can't recognize me, they put so much makeup on me. [Laughs.] That film had a great message too, that you should study the history of words and foreign languages and the meaning of words more so than just memorizing them. If you're an Indiana boy with German ancestry and you get a Hawaiian word, the only way you're going to get it right is if you had studied the patterns of the language itself. Hawaiian is an amazing language because it has very few sounds and the spelling is pretty systematic...
...laws of war. As it is with many war powers, the Constitution is vague about the scope of military commissions; legal wrangling over the extent of the commissions' authority goes back more than a century. In 1866, the Supreme Court said a military commission could not try an Indiana lawyer accused of agitating for the Confederacy, ruling that citizens must be tried in civilian courts when they're open and accessible. But in 1942, the court upheld President Roosevelt's tribunals for the eight accused German saboteurs in the failed scheme known as Operation Pastorius. More recently the court slapped...
...Though Kurlansky has tried some of the recipes in his book - the still regionally popular Indiana persimmon pudding is a favorite - he admits that some of these old dishes aren't great. "For my taste, there's too much ketchup and canned food in these recipes," he says. "But I would have rather eaten in 1930. I like to eat food that tells me where I am. I do book tours, and every night I'm in a different place, and I wish I were eating a different kind of food, since I'm going to all this trouble getting...