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...documents authored by Jefferson have served as templates for examining his racial beliefs. The Jefferson we know from the Declaration of Independence pronounced "all men are created equal," a phrase that provided a central argument for ending slavery and bringing blacks into citizenship, and it still offers the best hope for conquering the doctrine of white supremacy. As unbelievable as it may seem to modern observers who have a knee-jerk sensitivity to signs of Jeffersonian hypocrisy, this language genuinely alarmed many of Jefferson's contemporaries. Even though Jefferson was a slaveholder, the sentiments in the Declaration, when added...
Whenever an argument arises about the role that religion should play in our civic life, such as the dispute over the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance or the display of the Ten Commandments in an Alabama courthouse, assertions about the faith of the founders are invariably bandied about. It's a wonderfully healthy debate because it causes folks to wrestle with the founders and, in the process, shows how the founders wrestled with religion...
...prospect of having data from all clinical trials readily available is exciting, says Dr. Cary Gross of Yale: "This has the potential to dramatically change how medicine is practiced." But just as compelling is the ethical argument. "When people enroll in a study, they are told that this is going to benefit science," says Gross. "For trials results to then be shelved is a real betrayal of people who have trusted researchers with their lives." The pharmaceutical industry would be well advised to see it that way too. --By David Bjerklie
...press and what I perceived to be the Hemings' really pushy approach. We just gave them ugly looks and were generally surly and mean," says the computer-systems administrator from Denver. "Because of the nastiness of the fight, I never got back to the facts of the argument." Then two Christmases ago, he decided to sit down and research the facts by reading the DNA study by Dr. Eugene Foster in the scientific journal Nature as well as a report issued in 2000 by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which runs the Monticello estate. Works' conclusion: "When...
...like, 'If I push her, is she going to cry?'" Instead, she established a program to build group homes for children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic. Her African work impressed the home church enough that at least one current female candidate for bishop is using it as an argument for women's efficacy...