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...have to go back nearly a century to find philanthropy that compares in scale and scope to the giving of today's tycoons. Names like Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller are synonymous with fabulous wealth and technological innovation as well as a societal flowering that brought forth libraries, hospitals and universities. Foreign visitors to New York City are often surprised to learn that each of its great museums was built with private money. America's intellectual infrastructure was donated by philanthropists as well as created by public spending. And just as Gilded Age tycoons left a legacy of great institutions...
McHenry said that mail for such persons was simply sent back and forth between the Houses and the forwarding center all summer...
...those that don't know, talk. Realizing they've got a captive audience of news-starved news hounds, a number of Israeli and Palestinian officials not part of the official delegation have been holding forth on the acceptablity of compromises that may or may not have been offered. Call them roving freelance international pundits who can't get on "Charlie Rose." Earlier in the week, an Israeli cabinet member, Michael Melchior, was giving interviews in Thurmont, and Hanan Ashrawi, a well-known Palestinian figure, was giving press conferences back in Washington. But the White House drew the line when Limor...
...beckoning wilderness of the American mind. Water seems always to be where the great national story unfolds--Melville's ocean, Dreiser's lake, Fitzgerald's bay. But as Twain suggested, nothing was ever as deep as the river. The Atlantic becomes transformed into endless boulevards that run back and forth from the sea, offering both the allure and the illusion of eternity, which means that our rivers, like ancient sacred entities, can lead the country wherever it wishes to be led. They have served as the passageways to killing grounds and tyrannies, where the "dark" people have been slaughtered...
...next morning as we had breakfast, Coast Guard helicopters clattered back and forth across the Sound, flying low, searching in patient grid patterns. I logged on to check my e-mail, and saw a news headline: "JFK JR.'S PLANE MISSING...