Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gave a lesson on Islam and copies of the Koran to a few hundred young Italian women Sunday as he arrived in Rome for his fourth visit in a year.
"I am going to Texas, and you can go to hell," was the kiss-off line Rep. Davy Crockett had for his Tennessee constituents after they failed to re-elect him in 1834. Crockett's post-congressional career was short but immortal.
The ABC fall schedule is "locked and loaded" and won't be changed despite a management shake-up, the network's new chief said Sunday.
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Margaret Fuller, the only female member of the brilliant Emerson, Thoreau, et al. circle, is not an easy subject to write about, and Margaret Fuller, An American Romantic Life, Vol. II, The Public Years (Oxford University Press, $40, 649 pages, illus.), Charles Capper's detailed account of the last 10 years of her short life, is not for the faint of heart.
This work by Hew Strachan, a professor at Oxford University and a leading scholar of military history, is a rare phenomenon: A biography of a book, or rather of the classic masterpiece and other writings of Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), who served as an officer of middle rank in the Prussian army during the wars of Napoleon.
The Smithsonian Institution, that exalted entity, has appeared anything but dignified in recent months. The institution's president, Lawrence Small, resigned in March amid controversy over his million-dollar expense accounts and "Dom Perignon lifestyle," as Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, described it.
A shortcut to immortality can usually be achieved by becoming the muse of a great writer. No one who has
A shortcut to immortality can usually be achieved by becoming the muse of a great writer. No one who has
