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...talking with a student life official at Harvard who made pejorative remarks about how I have "dropped out" because I am not presently toeing the line in the Yard, as though for self-important bearers of Harvard's standard I died after earning my master's degree. Like Mark Twain, I want to say that "Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated...
...Europe. Although Latin America and Europe have had a relationship not unlike that of the United States and England, the former interaction is vastly more complicated and tortuous. The U.S. need no longer have an inferiority complex with respect to Europe, such as was depicted in Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad or in just about all of Edith Wharton's novels. The U.S. can now stand as an equal with the European nations; indeed, it has come to overshadow them. Latin America has had no such luck. In all sorts of pervasive ways, Latin America still lives with...
Even critics of the corps concede that protecting existing cities and towns is appropriate. Hannibal, Missouri, can only be thankful that it has just completed construction of a new $8 million floodwall, without which the Mark Twain home and museum would now be underwater. But absolutely critical to stemming future flood losses, a federal task force concluded last year, is protection of riverine floodplains from further development. In some cases it may even prove cost effective to relocate entire flood-prone communities. "We need to start giving land back to the river," says Larry Larson, head of Wisconsin's floodplain...
...Louis, was surely inspired by the Mississippi when he referred to a river in his poem The Dry Salvages as "a big strong brown god." But poetry isn't appropriate at times like these. "You can't say the river is very charitable," says a tract attributed to Mark Twain, perhaps the Mississippi's most famous observer. "Except for the fact that the streets are quiet . . ., there's really nothing good to say about a flood...
Among the "special guests" were the ghost of Freddy Mercury and "The Male Choir of Fr. Augustus." A Mark Twain look-alike criticized the Toronto-based band, whom he called "Canadian carpetbaggers," for their apparent misrepresentation of the Twain classic "Tom Sawyer" in a song of the same name...