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Bacon was an advocate for refugees.
"Even blue-blooded WASPs were refugees at one time; mine came over from England in 1630, fleeing debts for all I know," he said.
-- Today's New York Times
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Click for details.Bacon turned 64 last year on November 21. Log24 on that date: From a story in the November 21 Chronicle of Higher Educationon a recent St. Olaf College reading of Paradise Lost: "Of man's first disobedience,
and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree,
whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World,
and all our woe....
A red apple made the rounds,
each reader tempting the next." |
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