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...permanent capital city and how to pay off the Revolutionary War debt--Thomas Jefferson asked Alexander Hamilton and James Madison to share a meal at which the three men struck a bargain: the Northern states would agree to locate the capital in the South, and the Southern states would assent to the Federal Government's assumption of the debt, even though most of the South had already paid up. The nascent nation survived to fight another day. Later, because of the power granted the central government, Jefferson distanced himself from the deal. Maybe his dislike of it persuaded...
...offer unwanted advice to his successor. Blair's friends aver that he'll also refrain from criticizing or passing comment on Brown, despite the bitterness engendered by their ruptured friendship and long rivalry. But Blair is unlikely to opt for a quiet retirement. On Tuesday, after assent came from Moscow, Blair was cleared to be appointed to the role of Middle East peace envoy for the quartet of the U.S., E.U., U.N. and Russia in the quest for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Blair also hopes to launch an inter-faith initiative, discussed in Saturday's meeting with...
...three e-mails to members of the political science department about him. During a phone interview with Finkelstein conducted by The Crimson, listeners in the background—whom the professor did not name but said were colleagues on the DePaul faculty—audibly expressed their assent regarding the copious extent to which Dershowitz circulated his testimony about the man that he has called a “fraudulent scholar” and a “Jewish anti-semite...
...last stop of the night, Franken ends with a now perfected kicker: "And I can count on all of you?" Laughter ripples through the room. Franken chuckles too and then, as usual, goes further, deadpanning, "I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent. So thank you--it's now a moral obligation, and I'm holding you to it." The laughter is louder than ever...
...Commons to the House of Lords ("the Other Place," as it is called in Westminster) and, next week, the peers will debate their own demise. Still, these turkeys are likely to vote for Christmas and, if they don't, the government is determined to push through changes without their assent...