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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040714
Author:EILEEN McNAMARA

Chatterer the Red Squirrel has always been my favorite of the fictional characters Thornton W. Burgess created to populate the Great Meadow, the Green Forest, and the Dear Old Briar Patch, where the animals get into as much mischief as the children for whom the Cape Cod naturalist wrote his bedtime stories.

I remembered the opening line of Burgess's classic about the storybook squirrel when the director of the Department of Homeland Security took the stage last week to warn, yet again, that an attack on America by Al Qaeda was likely before year's end. "Chatterer the Red Squirrel had been ...

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