"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Sunday, March 09, 2003 From the Jimmy Carter Files: When Rabbits Attack
While boating on a small pond near Plains, Ga., on April 21, 1979, U.S. President Jimmy Carter uses an oar to splash water at a rabbit which swam near his boat. The President was later kidded about the "killer rabbit" episode. (AP Photo)
As a small contribution to the latest Jimmy Carter-go-round (see Little Green Footballs and Disordered Affections), this archival image of the then-commander-in-chief using force without world approval against an attacking bunny. "It was hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared and making straight for the president," a contemporary press account said.
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