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...steered the boat to Montauk, N.Y., and the Africans were taken into custody. They eventually went free when the U.S. Supreme Court declared their enslavement illegal. More than a century and a half later, director Steven Spielberg told the tale on film--modern America's equivalent of a marble monument to the event...
...everyone. The journey (cost: $3,150 to $5,950; call 800-221-1944 for more information) begins July 31 with three days in Quito, where travelers eat lunch in a restaurant built on the edge of a volcanic crater, straddle the equator at the Middle of the World monument and shop at the Otavalo indigenous market. But the highlight is the seven-day cruise through the Galapagos, a living laboratory for learning about the geological forces that shaped the islands and the evolutionary pressures that molded their inhabitants, which include marine iguanas that spit out salt, giant tortoises that...
...towners with a yen to explore will not be idle. Within an hour's drive: the Sundance resort and cultural center, the caverns of Timpanogos Cave National Monument, the vintage coaches of the Heber Valley Railroad and the Mormon historic sites of Salt Lake City...
...were quarried by slave laborers. In fact, The Statue of Freedom--the figure of a Native American woman warrior that stands on the dome--was cast in bronze by slave laborers in 1863 and hoisted up there. You'd think there would be a national museum or monument to them, but there isn't even a plaque...
Firing Line was conceived in the ambition that TV could elevate its audience, and Buckley survives as a kind of monument to that goal. He will continue to write books and his popular newspaper column, in which he no doubt will stand against the coarser currents of popular culture. When the Firing Line taping was through last week, and after champagne had been served, Ted Koppel interviewed Buckley for Nightline. At the end, Koppel said, "Mr. Buckley, we have 10 seconds left. Could you sum up in 10 seconds?" Said Buckley simply...