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The pathetic state of international disaster relief--arguably the United Nations is better at peacekeeping , which isn't saying much--calls to mind Lytton Strachey's description, in Eminent Victorians , of the anarchy with which Florence Nightingale was confronted when she set out to help wounded British soldiers in Crimea.
That was our way of showing, to ourselves especially, that we were intimates of those eminent locations.
John Demos, an eminent historian of early America at Yale, wrote a fascinating book several years ago called The Unredeemed Captive , about a white woman in colonial New England who was abducted by Indians and lived much of her life among them.
Surely every student of American literature knows that Harriet Beecher Stowe was the sister of the famous clergyman Henry Ward Beecher and the wife of Dr. Calvin Stowe, another eminent divine.
Local developer Eugene Pfeifer III, a vocal opponent of the library, owns a piece of property in the presidential park and promises to fight the city's attempt to take his property by eminent domain.