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...they would have stood as an omen portending the death of a king or the end of an empire. Humans have long interpreted the wrath of the (literal) heavens as punishment for their earthly transgressions. If our modern, secular selves were to sit up and take notice of ten thousand years of weather interpretation, what evil deed might be to blame...
...Back home, Schlesinger plunged into work on what became his Pulitzer prize- winning "The Age of Jackson" (he won a second Pulitzer, in 1966, for his participant's history of the Kennedy administration, "A Thousand Days"). Kept out of the draft by poor eyesight, he worked for the Office of War Information, eventually returning to London for the Research and Analysis branch of the OSS. Schlesinger politely rejects the Tom Brokaw idea of "the greatest generation": "Like all wars, our war was accompanied by atrocity and sadism, by stupidities and lies, pomposity and chickens...
...Stupidity, a versatile item, may express itself in a thousand ways. Bush seems conventionally ignorant and incurious. Perhaps the impression is unfair. Maybe Bush is smarter than he looks. Perhaps he is afflicted by a genetic goofiness that leaves an erroneous impression; at least he has not yet thrown up in the lap of any heads of state. But when Bush talks passionately about education, I wish I could shake the suspicion that the last book he read was "Goodnight Moon" when the twins were three...
...hundred thousand letters soliciting input from the Harvard community were mailed in October...
...someone in the public arena slugging and scratching for them, Gore insists, Americans will be overtaken by the HMOs, prescription-drug companies and Big Oil. "You've got a lot at stake in this election," he boomed at a rally in Flint, Mich., to a screaming crowd of several thousand. "I ask for your support so I can fight for you, so I can fight for your families, so I can fight for your future." The evil that Gore will fight hardest against in the final weeks? Bush's Social Security and tax-cut plans...