Remember when your high school summer reading list included "Atticus," "Fiesta," and "The Last Man in Europe?" You will once you see what these books were renamed before they hit bookshelves.
Great Southern authors: Many of them were restless souls who drank too much, understood the dark underbelly of humanity and lived in Southern cities where they produced some of the most enduring literature the world has ever known.
(CNN) -- Horton Foote, the Pulitzer Prize- and Academy Award-winning screenwriter of "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died, according to officials at the Hartford Stage theater in Connecticut, where he was working on a production.
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President Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award.
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