Four Freedoms State Park’s worldwide renown as a serene salute to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Human Rights.
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Susan Rosenthal, a Sacrificial Lamb?*
The woman Albany condemned, the room she failed to read and the friends who survived by leaving her behind.
After Susan Rosenthal was fired, David Kraut would talk about almost anything except Susan. This was unusual because David could discuss a subject long after everyone else had exhausted both the subject and the available oxygen. When her name entered the conversation, however, he became careful. At first I mistook that restraint for discretion; later, I began to recognize guilt.
