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Adams House resident Abigail T. Berman ’05 said that being a TF “has been my most fulfilling experience at Harvard,” and that it has made her want to work in academic management...
...recent fund-raising dinner attended by 60 Democrats at Joe Allen's, an American restaurant in Paris. Voting registrars for the parties have also fielded queries from expats who want to know whether they can vote in crucial swing states, where they may have previous ties. Abigail Altman, a Democrat and co-owner of the Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore on Paris' Right Bank, was able to sign up to vote in Florida where she used to live and her mother still resides, even though her last U.S. address was in Massachusetts, Kerry's home state. "I can do more good...
HEINZ KERRY: Can you imagine what our country would have been if Abigail Adams hadn't been the wife of John Adams? The intelligence, the support, the capability, the management. Everything. The woman was unbelievable. I think that different women in this century have shown different types of strength, like Betty Ford with her problems. Eleanor Roosevelt, of course. She was a woman of her own making. And then there are some other wives that were more traditional wives and part of a certain time. Then you have someone like Hillary Clinton, who is more modern in the sense...
...them, blacks were intellectually inferior to whites. Although he qualified his disparaging remarks because he hadn't observed blacks in their natural state of freedom in Africa, Jefferson's presentation leaves no doubt that he, like a typical white person of the 18th century, believed in white supremacy. Consider Abigail Adams, who upon seeing Othello expressed her "disgust and horror" at the thought of a black man touching a white woman. And the Jefferson-Hemings connection places Jefferson firmly within the world of Southern plantation society, where the rules of the game featured public denunciations of "amalgamation" but private practice...
...scandal centering on the fact that some French officials demanded bribes from American diplomats--brought relations between France and the U.S. to the breaking point. The Federalist Administration of President John Adams considered such solicitations to be grave insults. There were cultural differences as well. In the view of Abigail Adams, Frenchwomen were risque at best...