The shadows chased the failing light as the old man leveled the soil with his rake. Maybe it was old-fashioned, but he thought every grave should be dug by hand, even a pauper�s grave.

Outraged by American military intervention in the Philippines, Mark Twain wrote “The War Prayer” and submitted it to Harper�s Bazaar. This magazine rejected it for being too radical, and it wasn�t published until after Twain�s death, when World War I made it even timelier. It appeared in Harper�s Monthly, November 1916.

What is happening in March 2003?

What’s happening in February?

Even two years after leaving office, President Clinton is the target of the intellectually castrated. It is still common to hear Anne Coulter and her ilk reduce the former president�s erudite remarks to absurd aphorisms.

What is happening in January 2003?

What is happening in December 2002?

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What is happening in November 2002

Here are some drawings contributed by our artist Robert Exby.