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50th anniversary

Published: 07/11/10

Mothers and Fathers and Mockingbirds

By Jacquelyn Mitchard - AOL News

(July 11) -- Everyone who has read "To Kill a Mockingbird" has a "To Kill a Mockingbird" story. Just as each of us can say exactly where we were at the moment we learned that 9/11 was not an accident, just as each of us remembers with indelible lucidity our first kiss, all of us who have read that novel have a story that makes the book uniquely our own. Here's my son Martin's: His sophomore English teacher was reading aloud the passage in which the reverend admonishes Scout Finch, "Stand up, Miss Jean Louise. Your father's passin'." Martin's teacher then began to cry and Martin began to ...

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Published: 07/11/10

My Summer With Scout Finch

By Meg Clayton - AOL News

(July 11) -- The summer I met Scout Finch, I'd just moved into the seventh place I would call "home," where I would begin the sixth grade in the fifth of six grade schools I would attend. That was the summer after Miss Wilson's fifth grade, the summer of my new braces and, even more embarrassing, a first bra on my eleven-year-old breasts. The summer I waved goodbye through the back window of the family station wagon, leaving Chicago for a six-month rental in Los Angeles, where I would find myself in a tiny bedroom at the opposite end of the house from my parents and brothers, an unbearably ...

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Published: 06/5/10

'To Kill a Mockingbird' Turns 50, but Where Is Harper Lee?

By Donna Trussell - Politics Daily

This summer America celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of "To Kill a Mockingbird," but don't count on an appearance by the reclusive author, 84-year-old Harper Lee of Monroeville, Alabama. She hasn't granted an interview since 1964. She never gives speeches. She's rarely seen outside of her hometown. And she's apparently made her peace with her status as a one-book author. Harper Lee set the bar so high that subsequent books could never really leave its shadow. In point of fact she once told her cousin, "When you have a hit like that, you can't go anywhere but down." But you ...

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Published: 07/30/08

McCain Camp Flubs NASA Press Release

By Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily

The McCain campaign sent out a press release last night with McCain's statement on the 50th anniversary of NASA. Actually, they sent out two press releases. The first contained a passage that seemed to feature McCain channeling a Soviet cosmonaut: As President, I will act to make ensure our astronauts will continue to explore space... "Please act to make ensure you are voting for me!!" A minor gaffe like this, on its own, is not a big deal. True, a 5th grader could have proofread the release and corrected it, but the Democrats have regulated 5th graders right out of the labor market. In ...

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