Tuesday, January 17, 2006

FISH AND VISITORS STINK IN THREE DAYS: Today would have been Ben Franklin's 300th Birthday, and Philadelphia is celebrating the tercentenary with a series of events. The Inq has a package here.

Inventor, raconteur, university and hospital builder, publisher, statesman, ladies' man and more . . . is there a contemporary figure who comes close to the breadth and significance of his accomplishments?

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