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20 Jun 2015, 7:58 am
Here's a NYT article — "English Class in Common Core Era: ‘Tom Sawyer’ and Court Opinions" — about the struggles of English teachers — who'd obviously rather be teaching the good old novels they love and inspiring or trying to inspire kids to get caught up in the love of reading through imaginary characters and the plots that beset them — and the mean old politicians who've imposed the requirement that some percent (50 at… [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 10:49 am by Gene Killian
(Think about Tom Sawyer, who convinced his friends that painting a fence was fun, and then got them to pay him for the privilege.) [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 1:30 am by Nicole Kellner-Swick
Of course, he never would have written The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, had he been on Twitter. [read post]
6 Feb 2010, 2:27 pm by Kelly
He’s married to Kate Capshaw and has seven children: Theo Spielberg, who was adopted by Kate Capshaw before their marriage and later adopted by Spielberg (21), Sasha Spielberg (19), Sawyer Spielberg (17), their adopted daughter Mikaela George Spielberg (13), Destry Allen Spielberg (13), Jessica Capshaw, (33) and Max Spielberg (24). [read post]
27 Sep 2010, 10:43 am
The Court even referenced Mark Twain and "the ubiquitous Barlow pocketknives in his classic Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn books. [read post]
1 Feb 2016, 5:02 am by Jennifer Campbell Goddard
All stories, from Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain have a beginning, middle and an end. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 9:05 pm by Alfred Brophy
 Making the subjects of study do the work has the virtue of reducing the cost to the investigors -- sort of Tom Sawyer-like, no? [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 7:58 am
Other stories making the list include a pair of brothers who drown trying to swim back from “Tom Sawyer Island. [read post]
30 Dec 2006, 11:54 am
In fact, I now spend more time showing my 2yo son how to play Rush's Tom Sawyer! [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 6:31 am by Howard Wasserman
Two weeks ago came an announcement that NewSouth Books would publish a joint edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with the word "nigger" (which appears more than 200 times in Huck Finn) replaced with the word "slave. [read post]
12 Mar 2013, 11:14 am by Jared Correia
  I’d say this band usually sounds like a German dance club being implanted into your skull with a sledgehammer.) $ ‘Southern Comfort Zone’ by Brad Paisley (As one commenter astutely out it: redneck metronome.) @ ‘In the Year 2525’ by Zager & Evans (This was the #1 song in America during Woodstock.) ) ‘Tom Sawyer’ by Rush (Just as Mark Twain had envisioned it. [read post]
18 Apr 2006, 10:01 pm
Hat tip to the American Journal of Bioethics Blog.Item Three: Tom Cruise and the very, very pregnant Katie Holmes have been the subject of much birth gossip lately, but Tom doesn't do much to squelch those rumors, does he? [read post]