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...course, to paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of Bob Hope's demise were greatly exaggerated. Despite the momentary trauma it probably caused his family, friends and fans, the AP's grave error (no pun intended) did allow Hope the chance to hear Congressman Bob Stump (R-Ariz.) solemnly announce on the floor of Congress that "I have the sad responsibility to tell you this afternoon that Bob Hope passed away. We will all miss him very much." Adding a bipartisan twist to the tribute, Congressman David Bonior (D-Mich.) echoed Stump's sentiments. "We are all saddened by his passing," said...
...fact, it is Captain Herndon, not Mark Twain, who is the link to Tommy Thompson, and Thompson who is the main figure of what is so far the summer's best nonfiction adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (Atlantic Monthly; 507 pages; $27.50). As author Gary Kinder relates, in 1857, some years after making his exploration and writing his book, Herndon had charge of a large paddle-wheel steamer bound from the Panamanian port city of Aspinwall, now known as Colon, to New York City. The S.S. Central America carried 500 passengers, many of them returning...
During the welcome event, however, Wilsoninvoked Mark Twain's response upon reading hisobituary in a newspaper...
...sampler of youth on the margins in the 1990s, one wants to ask, "Harder compared to what?" To life in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression? Or to growing up almost anywhere in the developing world today? In 1998, in an America presided over by the quintessential Mark Twain character Bill Clinton (an irrepressible trickster out of Arkansas with late-adolescent hormones), the Dow noses up toward 10,000, and this spring's college graduates emerge into the best job market in years. If this is "harder," then send my generals a case...
...parent or teacher or student or principal or even computer salesman who claimed that insufficient data is the root of the problem. With an Internet connection, you can gather the latest stuff from all over, but too many American high school students have never read one Mark Twain novel or Shakespeare play or Wordsworth poem, or a serious history of the U.S.; they are bad at science, useless at mathematics, hopeless at writing--but if they could only connect to the latest websites in Passaic and Peru, we'd see improvement? The Internet, said President Clinton in February, "could make...