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...newspaper writes a story it is (or should be) deciding that the news at hand is sufficiently reliable that it will not cause irreparable harm to those that do not deserve it. Richard Jewell did not enjoy such journalistic prudence, and his life may never be the same. Mark Twain wrote: "It takes your enemy and you friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news...
...accounts of his exploits, posted to the Web each month. "I guess I'm the product of the pubblic schools," Walter writes, noting that he could post without the misspellings, but "a few profesional writers told me to keep it as my spelling and syntax are dialectal like Mark Twain and Willaim Foulkner...
...popular culture is dense with unassuming, homespun heroes and heroines: from James Fenimore Cooper's Deerslayer to Mark Twain's Tom and Huck, to Will Rogers and Ma and Pa Kettle and the Clampetts of Beverly Hills, to Forrest Gump, who took the myth one step further by demonstrating that a double-digit IQ could lead to immense worldly success if accompanied by a good heart and simple decency. It is the essence of Capra's best-loved heroes. Jefferson Smith must contend with the schemes of Senator Paine, his onetime hero who plays a scene decked out in white...
...novelists like to stereotype American entrepreneurs as single-minded and heartless? Perhaps because so many are. Herman Melville set the tone in 1857 with The Confidence-Man. Mark Twain later brought the national style of go-getting to popular perfection in Huckleberry Finn. An adult rereading of that masterpiece reveals a hierarchy of hustlers, from runaway slave Jim and his fortune-telling hair ball to the outlandish charlatans calling themselves the King and the Duke...
...safe to say that, for Americans of today, the self-conscious, self-critical Western Canon provides a level of intellectual fulfillment that is not to be surpassed, and should not be neglected. Should one leave here without knowing his Shakespeare, his Bible, his Dickens, his Melville, his Emerson, his Twain, his Chaucer, his Dante? Given these criteria for exit, I certainly couldn't leave here now, but perhaps when I do, I will be closer to ready...