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...there is the Mark Twain National Forest, which spreads over 1.5 million acres in Missouri. Unlike other national forests, Mark Twain is a maze of public and privately held lands cobbled together in the 1930s after Missouri was virtually clear cut to make ties for the transcontinental railroad. Hidden in Mark Twain's hills and hollows are more methamphetamine labs than anywhere else in the nation and an immense acreage of cultivated marijuana. The forest also harbors more specialized hate groups than anyplace else in America. Its denizens, who proudly call themselves hillbillies, are among the most independent, suspicious...
...slowly setting behind me as my campaign paddle wheeler, the Mark Twain, steams into port in Hannibal, Missouri - the final stop on a nearly 400-mile trek down the Mississippi River. As you know from your own trip down this great waterway (captured in a recent special issue of TIME magazine), life on the Mississippi is nothing short of spectacular...
...mail, and is a touch-typist. ("Remember, he's a former reporter," one staffer reminds me, which in fact did nothing to reassure me at the time. I've been in newsrooms. I've seen journalists both hunting and pecking.) He "banged it out" sitting atop the Mark Twain riverboat on a gray and sultry Monday afternoon after a morning in which he was up before dawn to appear on seemingly every network morning show. He followed that with a lengthy chat with the reporters on the boat, headlined a rally in Quincy, Ill., conducted an onboard town hall meeting...
Gore quoted another Connecticut native, Mark Twain, when explaining why he chose Lieberman, saying, "Do the right thing: It will gratify your friends and astonish your enemies...
Your Mississippi River stories naturally call Mark Twain to mind. While he couldn't predict the future of the river, he was right on target about the future of politics in America. More than 100 years ago, he observed, "We have the finest Congress money can buy." Like the Mississippi, the more things change, the more they stay the same." SID ESTEROWITZ New York City...