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Attentive readers of the newspapers this week may have noticed an odd coincidence. On Monday, the day before Independence Day, Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby devoted his op-ed column to a stirring remembrance of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, many of whom are now forgotten to history. He reserved his highest praise for an obscure signer from New Jersey, John Hart. Read carefully: "[Hart] was forced to flee in the winter of 1776, at the age of 65, from his dying wife's bedside. While he hid in forests and caves, his home was demolished...
...writing about John Hart wasn't the Tampa Tribune's idea, either. In fact, this forgotten patriot has had a cameo in a half-dozen recent newspaper columns--and that's just what I could find in a two-minute search on the Internet...
Others try to write something creative, but the results are comically similar. Exploring the forgotten signers of the Declaration of Independence, Jacoby's theme on Monday, seems clever and new at first--but it turns out it's nearly as common as, for instance, remembering the sacrifice of America's veterans. The half dozen Fourth of July columns that celebrate John Hart all sound exactly the same. Reform Party presidential candidate and conservative scribe Patrick Buchanan, on July 4, 1994: "Disaster struck 'Honest John' Hart first. Just months after he signed, British and Hessian troops invaded New Jersey, forcing...
Since my last birthday was the big 7-0, I decided to take the memory test. I was doing great and rattled off my last three mayors: Rudy Giuliani, David Dinkins and Ed Koch. However, I'd forgotten one big thing: I moved to Bucks County, Pa., 14 years ago. I never lose my car keys but always misplace my glasses, which I need when I drive. What category do the experts put me in? ESTELLE AUSTIN Newtown...
...exploitative view of the young black urban audience this gratuitously violent and graceless remake of Shaft is meant to attract! The problem is not just that Jackson, normally as good an actor as they come, is to Roundtree what George Lazenby, who played James Bond in the deservedly forgotten On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), is to Sean Connery. It's that instead of updating the heroic Shaft of the '70s to fit the ambiguous racial climate of the new century, the makers of this disgraceful film have pulled the character inside out and transformed him into a thug...