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...famous man of letters in France, and perhaps the world--his only rival being Charles Dickens. The English put up plaques to show where their literary celebrities lived or were born, and sometimes grant them burial in Westminster Abbey. Hugo, however, is the only writer to have a stone mark his place of conception. His parents' epochal embrace took place in a forest 3,000 ft. up on the flank of Mount Donon, overlooking the Rhineland, in May 1801, though it's typical of Hugo's own mythomania that in adult life he claimed it happened 3,000 ft. higher...
...start of the successful War of Independence is warmly cheered in Massachusetts and Maine, its former annex, on the third Monday in April, with re-enactments, fairs and a marathon to mark the event. The towns of Lexington and Concord plan their year around Patriot's Day. Even people beyond New England sometimes join in the fun: when Patriot's Day falls on April 15, accountants in New York also cheer, because the federal government allows the taxes of New Yorkers as well as Bay State residents to be filed a day later...
...game, it probably won't make much of a difference," defenseman Mark Tinordi said. "But over the series...
NORTH YARD Mark Stad 3-3851 stad SAC Erik T. Smith 3-3539 etsmith SAC John Burton 3-3694 jaburton FIN Council Treasurer Tim Daskivich 3-3694 daskivic CLC Marc Romanoff 3-3694 romanoff...
...intrusions? Nobody knows yet, although the Pentagon says that no classified information was stolen. What has the DOD sweating right now is the safety of the Global Positioning System (GPS) -- and whether the MOD is doing more than simply taking a look around inside. Says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson: "If these hackers can tinker with the GPS to a degree that all missiles based on it end up 10 miles from where they are supposed to be, or all ships that use it to navigate were off by two degrees, this really could be serious." Still, that...