GALLUP, NEW MEXICO — Face-to-face with honor and a Navajo tradition of silence.
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Walking, American style, is often a coast-to-coast journey. But it isn’t about the feet.
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When Will Durant asked the wise about “the meaning of life,” he got the usual answers. Then he asked a prisoner.
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From a rooftop vision to a counterculture bible, Stewart Brand sowed the seeds of several revolutions.
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You may think football a grim sport, but meet Alex Karras, "a clown with a fine sense of timing." And, BTW, Hitler's husband.
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No verse was too light, no rhyme was too impossible for Ogden Nash.
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“Network" did not predict populist anger -- it foresaw a network using anger to boost ratings. Sound familiar?
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“Every audience was his,” Kris Kristofferson said, but no one knew Steve Goodman’s sad secret.
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When the Northern groom married the Southern bride, the bond was love. And a fight for freedom.
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Fresh from the Hudson River School, Frederic Church stunned America with “Niagara,” then set his vision in stone.
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Students called Jaime Escalante “Kimo.” He called them his “burros.” But the key to his success was ganas — the drive to succeed. (As seen in “Stand and Deliver.”)
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Despite his glowing words, Jefferson thought blacks far from equal. Then a single letter took him to task.
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Strikeouts? Politics? Drugs? Transcendental Meditation? Ask the "Spaceman," still pitching in his late 60s. All for the love of the game.
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Track and field, golf, baseball, basketball. . . Was there anything Babe Didrikson didn’t play? Yes, she said. Dolls.
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Comedic couples come and go but there has never been a more perfect union of wit and mind than Nichols and May.
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Fast cameras caught split second action but “Doc” Edgerton’s strobe captured magic.
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