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...place since 1977, has generated more than $1.3 billion in nonfederal aid for American libraries, museums, universities and colleges. Its net of activities reaches very wide. It funds the study and publication of essential archives, like the papers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain and Dwight Eisenhower. (Twenty-eight volumes of Washington's papers alone have appeared so far.) It has given more than $1 million to a projected 21-volume documentary history of the ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It sponsored Ken Burns' TV series on the Civil...
...Mark Twain is reputed to have said that history does not repeat itself; it rhymes. There will never be another Holocaust. The exact permutations of history that created it are lost forever, and in this respect every event is a historical singularity. But cracks in a world which we must strive to make perfect surround us. And not just cracks, but major breaches of ethics and humanity. The enduring power of the Holocaust is its ability to wake us from moral slumber and prod us into action...
...Kant, but almost everyone is familiar with Cinderella. Analysis of these folktales can reveal a great deal about culture and beliefs which may not be immediately apparent because these stories are so prevalent. One might as well argue that the English department is useless because everyone has read Mark Twain. Clare Sammells...
...twain don't meet in Salman Rushdie's East, West...
Clinton Administration officials today confirmed recent rumors that Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, 73, will resign early next year, leaving the Clinton Administration without one of its most experienced and highly-regarded policy makers. Bentsen, however, took a page from the Mark Twain playbook, telling reporters that reports of his departure were "premature." Leading the pack of talked-about replacements: Robert Rubin, head of Clinton's National Economic Council and the former co-chairman of Goldman, Sachs & Co. TIME Washington correspondent Adam Zagorin says Bentsen has decided to quit "for a lot of reasons. First, he's getting on. The timing...