Described by John Rowe Townsend as "the richest and strangest" talent to emerge in British children's writing in the 1960s, Leon Garfield writes books that are simultaneously traditional and distincti...
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Hollywood offers a new spin on the legend of Jesse James when "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," starring Brad Pitt as James, opens Sept. 21.If the movie sparks your inte...
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Travis Taylor has some experience following Randy Moss, having joined the Minnesota Vikings two years ago after they dealt the receiver to the Oakland Raiders.Now that Moss has been dealt again to ...
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Tom Slayton set out hoping to renew interest in Henry David Thoreau, using his feet and his pen.It turned out that following Thoreau's footsteps to Cape Cod, Walden Pond and Maine's Mount Katahdin ...
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Henry David Thoreau made his third and final trip to Maine's North Woods 150 years ago, traveling waterways and forests that shaped so many of his ideas about nature.A nonprofit group on Monday unv...
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Following are President Bush's remarks to U.S. troops on arriving Monday at Al-Asad Air Base in Al-Anbar Province, Iraq.Thank you all. General, thank you very much. It's an honor to be with you. As...
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Accra, Ghana (dpa) - Ghana's team may boast global football star
Michael Essien, but the most popular player is a young and shy 18-
year-old, who has seven league games and ...
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It's not as well known as Walden Woods, but Mount Misery was one of author Henry David Thoreau's favorite places to take his rambling hikes.Located less than two miles from Walden Pond State Reserv...
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Paris (dpa) - His Discovery Team team director, Johan Bruyneel,
certainly meant it as a compliment when he called the 2007 Tour de
France winner Alberto Contador "the new La...
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At an age when many girls are still playing with their Barbie dolls, Bindi Irwin has moved on to something a bit more challenging."I have Blackie my black-headed python. I also have Corny the corn ...
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Leon Garfield
In the footsteps of Jesse James
