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...Atlanta's Peachtree Street, where police and hippies once tangled, young officers have persuaded young civilians to help combat the use of hard drugs. When the department recently opened a store-front precinct station, officers gamely let two hippies emblazon the plate-glass window with the legend "Pig Pen...
...angry letter-and possibly the last manuscript from the pen of Mark Twain. He died six months after writing it in 1909 to a fellow author and dear friend, William Dean Howells. In the letter, Twain complained at incredible length-some 400 pages-of how he had been bilked by two employees, one of them a secretary with the power to cash her boss's checks. The letter, discovered by a niece of Twain's wife, was sold for more than $25,000 last week to the New York Public Library...
...weekly newspaper, then began her Ha'aretz column seven years ago. She rarely interviews, choosing her topic three days before deadline and then digging madly into archives, her memory and notebooks. Sitting at a baroque table cluttered with books and papers, she dashes off her piece with a pen. She never rereads or edits it. "When I begin my research, I hope for a miniholocaust or a broken leg or something so I won't have to do the column. When it's over, I feel like I'd been through childbirth. But then I hate...
...because Shakespeare provided in Helena a more striking example of the clever and strong-willed female than he had given us in the Portia of the Merchant of Venice, a type continued by Nora in lbsen's A Doll's House and by such characters from Shaw's own pen as Ann Whitefield. Major Barbara. Hesione Hushabye, and Saint Joan...
...very tempting to give one stroke of the pen for each of the millions of people that America has killed or starved or maimed, or the thousands of rivers that it has polluted, and reduce it all to a table or graph and then say, "Look...