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Even Mark Twain would've been proud...
Their mother says the children used few "formal" textbooks, but instead read novels and instruction manuals. Their favorite books include Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks by Donald Harington, The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss, The Double Helix by James Watson and Homer's Iliad...
...vast rumination on history, on the clash of cultures and individuals, and on the beliefs that people cherish for comfort and salvation. Author Salman Rushdie, 41, who was born in Bombay and educated at Cambridge, shows every sign of disproving Kipling's bromide about East, West and the twain never meeting. They have met, all right, in his experience and imagination, with results that are alternately comic, poignant and explosive...
...Muriel for an attempted reconciliation with his wife. But the tone and dynamics of this scene are indistinguishable from the rest of a film that looks as if it had been shot in a brownout. Depression, obviously, is not amusing. But depressives, as the history of humor from Mark Twain to S.J. Perelman proves, can be. Anyway, it should be possible to analyze an illness without falling prey...
...Mark Twain were alive today, he would probably say, "The reports of The Harvard men's squash team death have been greatly exaggerated...