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  • an evening of music and reminiscences of days in the Johnson White House and travels around the globe in Air Force One. 6 Historian Michael Beschloss, who listened to and transcribed all of President Johnson's taped tele­ phone conversations released thus
  • " by Amerigo Vei;pucci, dated October 19, 1476. This Mter to his father is the only recorded Mter by Vespucci in an American collection. (Below right) The Bailly Globe, made of copper in 1530 by Robert de Bailly, based on maps drawn by explorer Giovanni da
  • Boston, it is rather obvi­ ous that you've got a very large Irish vote just to start with. But in Kansas City, Pendergast took over in a city that by a survey only had about 7 to 8 percent Irish names. We don't even know if they were all Irish
  • winner David Shribman is Washington bureau chief of The Boston Globe. He writes a column that appears in more than fifty newspapers, and another for Fortune magazine. He appears frequent! y on television's "Face the Nation" and ·•Washington Week in Review
  • have also appeared in The Atlantic, American Heritage. the Washington Post. the Los Angeles Times. and the Boston Globe. From 1998 to 2003 he was a research fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. "And that was the story
  • when Duncan began to ac4u1re and hone the skilL that ph L joumaJism demands. • World War Il. \\"here Duncan en ed as a Marine c mbat photogmpher in the Pacific 1l1euter • The Life year.... ( It ➔ to 195 ). which to k Dun ·an l.round th globe: covering
  • is safe from them. We are incomparably the most powerful nation on the globe, yet we are more likely to be directly attacked than at any Lime in the last two centuries. The state itself is changing. Bobbitt said, and it has a new message: "Give us power
  • , the nationally televised ceremony began on schedule. Four thousand guests descended on Austin from around the globe to celebrate the opening of the sixth Presidential Library and lo pay tribute to the nation's 36th President. Guests included writers. business
  • , no clear moral alternative to the cynical power politic. l,f the O\iet L'nion . .. And it provides no answer al all to the quesuons of poverty and injustice around the globe. Instead it allows our adversaries to po. e as the champion& of hope and progres, m
  • of the best acting 1essons avail­ able, as pertinent today as it wa. four hundred years ago. ' Shakespeare· plays w re enormously succe sful, but the Puritans had their way, York recalled. In 1642 the the­ aters were closed. The Globe Playhouse became
  • . W h a t do I r e m e m b e r of i t ? by B uckm inster F uller. T h e g r e a t , g l e a m i n g g e o d e s i c globe The building its e lf is a tr iu m p h w ith its e s c a l a t o r s r i s i n g s k y w a r d a n d its ch an g in g m o o d s