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...There were e-mailed death threats. Security has been tightened at some of Ayers' speaking engagements. "It's been a tough time for him, but he's accustomed to tough times," says William Schubert, one of Ayers' colleagues at the University of Illinois, who co-authored a book, Teacher Lore: Learning from Our Own Experience, with Ayers...
...Texas Rangers were the only franchises in baseball who never qualified for an LCS. Call Texas the Lone Rangers - the Rays have now purged themselves from that list. If we're lucky, maybe Tampa Bay - or Boston, or Philly, or L.A. - will write the next chapter of LCS lore. And deliver another fall classic, before the Fall Classic sees its first pitch...
...property of the Vermont house is a large rock, the subject of family lore: in the '70s, Solzhenitsyn sat his sons astride the rock and told them that someday it would turn into a flying horse and take them back to Russia. It was the sort of fairy tale you might expect a writer to tell his kids, but this one came true...
Veterans of American wars have been memorialized in literature, lore and granite. But for the fighters in one bitter conflict, a 1985 commemorative postage stamp has had to suffice. The Korean War is not an event that has lingered in the public memory; its veterans, members of the silent generation, came home with their mouths shut, preferring to keep their angst private. This comprehensive history at last gives voice to their experience and their anguish. On June 25, 1950, Soviet-armed troops from the People's Democratic Republic of Korea charged across the 38th parallel in an attempt to unify...
...capital, to Anchorage. The road from Juneau goes 40 miles and stops. Take a plane. Take a ferry; in Alaska, the ferries are part of the highway system. Taylor Highway, a gravel track passable in summer, heads north from the Alaska Highway through Chicken (so named, according to local lore, because its founders could not spell ptarmigan) and eventually reaches Eagle, where it stops. The most self-indulgent and leisurely way to reach Alaska is to head for Seattle or Vancouver, board a cruise ship and eat your way north. For its 625 passengers on a recent seven-day voyage...