Sunshine hero
Way back up in a bayfront house on the northeastern lip of Fort Myers Beach where the young Lee Melsek once romped — not far from the place his mother offered lemonade to a chain gang of criminals she took for solid citizens, about 200 yards from the hotel where he met the famous American novelist James Jones, just down a dead-end lane from The Beached Whale, a bar where Mr. Full Story
The exceptionalism backlash
President Barack Obama learned from Bill Clinton’s mistakes in 1993-94. He ran, relative to Mr. Clinton, a buttoned-up transition. He sought to avoid Mr. Clinton’s tactical miscues on health care. And he steered clear of cultural land mines. Full Story
Obama: Full speed ahead for health reform
After a year-long debate, President Barack Obama has at last declared that the time has come for an up-or-down vote in Congress on his health-care-reform legislation. Full Story
MOMENTS IN TIME
. On March 11, 1818,
“Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheusm” is published. The book, by 21-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, is frequently called the world’s first science-fiction novel. In Shelley’s tale, a scientist animates a creature constructed from dismembered corpses. Full Story
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