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A Lesson Learned The candidates' lack of honesty about tax policy during the presidential debates is a matter for concern [Oct. 18]. But remember the 1984 debate between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale, when the latter infamously predicted that the next President, whoever he might be, would definitely raise taxes...
His actor pal Jack (Thomas Haden Church) is a less learned oenophile. "Pinot Noir?" he asks, guzzling it as if it were Gatorade. "Then how come it's white?"
Ask Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper what's been the greatest technological advance in her lifetime, and she'll tell you it's the automobile. A lot of other people might have chosen television, the Internet or even the cell phone. But Van Andel-Schipper has a longer perspective than most...
Sawyer-Lauçanno also reported that Cummings’ time at Harvard was invaluable. “He drew off what he learned in his undergraduate years throughout his life and also depended on the associations and friends he made there,” he said.
Of the nine artists in the show, Fabulous Histories: Indigenous Anomalies in American Art, on view through Nov. 19 in at the Carpenter Center, one, P.M. Wentworth, was apparently convinced that he was a medium between Earth and extra-terrestrial worlds; another, James Castle, was born unable to hear or...