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Caterpillar bulldozers have completely destroyed the sacred old dirt Indian footpath that leads (and lead Thoreau) along one whole side of the pond to Thoreau's hut. The trail has been grossly despoiled into what looks like the making of a one-lane highway. I counted 13 trees cut down at the water's edge in one 20-foot section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE EDITORS | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

DIED. BURTON LANE, 84, high school dropout turned celebrated stage and film composer who wrote the music for the Broadway shows Finian's Rainbow and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; in New York City. Lane won a Grammy and was nominated for a Tony for On a Clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 20, 1997 | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

Thomas was allegedly employed by a family in Roseville, Minnesota, that at first glance would not seem in need of his services. Gerald Dick, a dentist, and his wife Judy live on a wooded lane in a $450,000 house replete with circular drive and three-car garage. Their son James played some professional football; daughter Stacy Zehren is a lawyer in Chicago. Still, if the Roseville police are to be believed, the Dicks paid ex-con Thomas to do their holiday lifting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEY DIDN'T PAY RETAIL | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...couldn't hit 30-foot jumpers or whale on seven-foot Angolans in the lane, but nobody could put out a Saturday paper like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Not-So-Desultory Philippic | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

...Abraham Lincoln gained notoriety throughout the Union for his participation in the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Seven years later, he was shot and killed. Just last week, my great-uncle Julius was debating whether or not to drive in the HOV lane on the Long Island Expressway; someone honked at him and made a rude hand gesture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stop the Senseless Persecution of Debaters | 12/13/1996 | See Source »

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