AltWeeklies Wire
Wanted: More Dead Presidentsnew
Hopes were high when some of the biggest names in Illinois formed the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Foundation in Springfield, but it's now clear they have fallen far short of their financial goals. Richard Norton Smith hopes to play catch-up.
Illinois Times |
Bruce Rushton |
11-23-2005 |
Economy
Tags: and, Illinois, Richard, Abraham, Foundation, library, Lincoln, museum, Norton, presidential, Smith, Springfield
This Ain't No Picnic: Minutemen on Patrolnew
As one night with the Texas Minutemen proves, the sinister legions of "The Drug Cartel" have little to fear from this latest incarnation of border hysteria. As for the rest of us...
Austin Chronicle |
Diana Welch |
10-27-2005 |
Immigration
Fall Books Defy Disasternew
This coming fall and winter are thin on fiction but large on hulking works of non-fiction that might help us catch up with this runaway bobsled called planet Earth.
Boston Phoenix |
John Freeman |
09-27-2005 |
Books
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