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Ken Burns' 'The War' hits home Sunday on PBS

Ken Burns, whose latest documentary series, "The War," begins Sunday on PBS (WNET/13 at 8 p.m., WLIW/21 at 10 p.m.), has always been drawn to statements that sum things up in the broadest way. Posted on the wall of his office here, behind his own farmhouse in Walpole, N.H., is a pearl from Tyrone Guthrie, the Minneapolis theater impresario: "We are looking for ideas large enough to be afraid of...

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