The alliance defends its Numbers, and Mr. Finn at Microsoft says the group's figures are accurate.
Mark Twain changed the rules of American fiction when, in Huckleberry Finn, he let a redneck kid tell his story in his own dialect.
This rather eclectic bunch is joined by about 75 other people, including former agents of the I.R.S., F.B.I., Secret Service and Interpol, and former prosecutors - all of whom work under Mr. Finn.
One is sentimentality; the archetypical American child is Huckleberry Finn, who had little taste for formal education.
He also defended his use of a private jet, the definitive symbol of corporate excess, on the grounds it made his life easier - even though it did undermine his "Huckleberry Finn" image.
Come on, Finn, let's sit and watch TV as a family.
All of that is part of Toni Morrison's concern, and it colors her, well, - certainly controversial reading of Huckleberry Finn — which nevertheless, it seems to me, has a quite profound interest.
And the word, which appears 219 times in Huckleberry Finn, has made the book too offensive for some readers.
Chester Finn of the Thomas Fordham Institute, an education think-tank, is no fan of universal preschool.
And what ever became of the friend he and Veronica both knew back then, a brainy, idealistic boy named Adrian Finn?
Other states, Mr Finn argues, would do well to follow South Carolina's example.
Thank you, Ambassordor Finn. Always a pleasure having you.
