colleagues: slightly off topic; but here is a link to an interactive feature attached to an article in today's NYTimes on Whitman and the Civil War. Adam Goodheart says the pages included in this feature have never been published before... http://documents.nytimes.com/walt-whitman-and-abraham-lincoln also, THE CONSPIRATOR -- Robert Redford's film about the Lincoln murder plot -- opens this Friday. Finally. -- Harold K. Bush, Ph.D Professor of English Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO 63108 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h) <www.slu.edu/x23809.xml>