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Separation of church and state doesn't mean churches must stay out of politics
In his letter to the editor, "If the church wants to play politics, it should give up its tax-exempt status" (July 6), David Johnson seems to be misrepresenting the separation of church and state. It is clear that our founders believed that people...Tags: Church and State Relations, Charity, Separation of Church and State
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'Banquet at Delmonico's' by Barry Werth
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Evolutionist: In the Calendar section on Jan. 11, a photo caption with the review of the book "Banquet at Delmonico's" mentioned Charles Darwin and his fellow evolutionist, Herbert Spencer, but did not make clear...Tags: Biology, Political Campaigns, Charles Darwin, Carl Schurz, Science
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Los Angeles Times Names Book Prize Winners For 2006
LOS ANGELES, April 27, 2007 – On the eve of the nation's largest public literary festival, the Los Angeles Times tonight applauded the year's most accomplished authors with its 27th Annual Book Prizes ceremony at UCLA's Royce Hall. News anchor Jim...Tags: Death, Benjamin Franklin, Biography (genre), History, Juvenile Delinquency
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Jacket Copy
Shiver me timbers R.L. Stine, author of the beloved "Goosebumps" series of creepy, crawly stories, is heading to "HorrorLand." The ghoulish theme park will be the springboard for 12 new tales, with Scholastic Books planning to release the first two...Tags: The New York Times, Sidney Poitier, Mark Twain, Constitutional Issues, Wally Lamb
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Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Kirsch Award Honors William Kittredge
NEW YORK, March 1, 2007 – William Kittredge has been named the winner of the 27th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes' Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. The award was announced tonight along with the names of the 45 finalists for the 2006...Tags: Arts, New York City, Death, Benjamin Franklin, Biography (genre)
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In "A Summer of Hummingbirds," scholar Christopher Benfey looks at cultural reconstruction after the Civil War
By Art Winslow
Christopher Benfey, a scholar of Emily Dickinson and Gilded Age America, would not have his book "A Summer of Hummingbirds" had Dickinson not responded to a small floral painting sent to her in 1882 by writing an eight-line poem in...Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Mark Twain, Lord Byron, Poetry, Arts
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Historical novel looks at a divided Beecher family
TRIBUNE NEWSPAPERS: The Hartford CourantHARRIET AND ISABELLA By Patricia O'Brien Touchstone, 320 pages, $25 Imagine, for a moment, a family that so enthralls the country that its members' every move is chronicled by the media. Think reformist Kennedys, stalwart Bushes and add authors of...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Martha Stewart, Death, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fiction
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A Cry For Rights Of Women
Courant Books EditorIn 1892, a brilliant short story was published in New England Magazine. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is equally chilling whether read as a horror story, an account of madness, a condemnation of prevailing theories about women's mental health or a withering...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Death, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elections, Lyman Beecher
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Puritans Viewed Christmas As Corrupt Religious Ritual
The Hartford CourantThe Grinch would have come up empty- handed in Colonial Connecticut. There would have been no presents under the tree, let alone a tree to steal. Christmas was viewed by the Puritans of New England as a corrupt religious, if not a pagan, ritual and was...Tags: Rituals, Anglicanism, London (England), Religious Texts, Lyman Beecher
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Beechers Helped Hartford Become A Literary Beacon
Courant Staff WriterBeecher was a name to reckon with in mid-19th-century America. Lyman Beecher was a nationally known preacher. On Long Island and in Litchfield, he and two wives produced 11 sons and daughters who survived to adulthood, almost all involved in major...Tags: Mark Twain, Happiness (state of mind), Human Rights, Lyman Beecher, Civil Rights
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Charles Dudley Warner Was A Star Of His Time But Is Little Read Today
Courant Staff WriterThe shelf of Charles Dudley Warner's books stands at 15 volumes, but like many works by the triple-named writers of the Victorian era, they are largely unread today. When he lived on Hawthorn Street in Hartford, and later on Forest Street in the heart...Tags: Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ulysses S. Grant, Europe, Ice Cream
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Chapter Four: The Lash and the Loom
Past the heavy glass doors of the world's most famous jewelry store, two glimmering rings sit waiting to be selected for the proper marriage. One is a diamond-inlaid platinum band selling for $11,700, the other a matching engagement ring priced at $37,...Tags: Defense, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Employees, Furnishings and Furniture Industry, U.S. Congress
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