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Jackson takes me outside to the back. The patio is made of perfectly placed brown bricks. A tree is strung, with tiny white lights. We turn to look at the house. It too is outlined with tiny white lights, which trace squares along the Tudor lines. "The Tivoli lights," says Jackson. In the back courtyard there is an old-fashioned red popcorn cart, the kind you see at country fairs with pretty gold lettering on the sides. Jackson wants to show me the swimming pool. A wall behind it has four fountainheads carved like bearded Neptunes spouting water from puckered...
...policies that chilled rosebud are not difficult to trace, though in the beginning, as the U.S. Supreme Court later noted, Congress showed "the most anxious desire to conciliate the Indian nations." The famous Northwest Ordinance, which the first Congress ratified in 1789, stipulated that "The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards Indians; their land and property shall never be taken from them without their consent." But with the ascendance of Andrew Jackson the federal government abandoned all pretense of concern for Indian rights. In place of conciliation Jackson and his successors pursued a policy of removal and relocation...
...handful returned in desperation to the Soviet Union, only to perish hi Stalin's camps, like the eminent critic Dmitri Mirsky, or by suicide, as in the case of the great idiosyncratic poet Marina Tsvetayeva. Many remained stranded on alien shores where their writing disappeared with scarcely a trace...
...Christians trace their heritage directly to Jesus. People from the coastal cities of Sidon and Tyre went to Galilee to hear Christ preach, and on at least one occasion Jesus visited what is now southern Lebanon. Later the Apostle Paul spent a week in Tyre, where the first Christian church is believed to have been established. By the 5th century, the region was solidly Christian. So it remained until 200 years later, when Muslim invaders conquered much of the Middle East and North Africa. Many Christian communities along the coast converted to Islam, but the mountains remained a Christian redoubt...
...parent of young speed skaters, I was angered by your comment that speed skating is an obscure sport and "Heiden, the greatest speed skater in history-and an American-has flashed through without leaving a trace." Eric Heiden chose to excel in a sport that demands grace and strength, instead of one like hockey, which can be brutal and violent. I am proud that my children chose to emulate...