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...chore, and he called the presidency itself "a splendid misery." The first child born in the White House was Jefferson's grandson, James Madison Randolph, delivered in an upstairs bedroom in 1806. The second birth was a reminder of the nation's grim legacy: a child born in the basement quarters to two of Jefferson's slaves, Fanny and Eddy. No name is recorded for the child, who died before reaching age 2. The child's funeral was probably the first in the White House...
Think your family's insane? Head over to the Loeb Ex this weekend and check out George F. Walker's Escape from Happiness. Mary Ann believes baking chocolate cakes will appease a malevolent shadow, burglars are hiding pornography in the basement, and it only gets crazier from there. If nothing else, it's sure to make you think twice about your own crazy home life...
...this year. Heading toward Thanksgiving, the river of presidential politics is still gushing and roiling all over the place - flooding the basement, short-circuiting the media wires, driving the snakes out of their holes. The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who is an optimist, thinks the current mess might actually attract fresh, idealistic talents to politics. Perhaps it will happen. But first we must find a way to ostracize the old egos...
Located on Divinity Avenue, the Life Science building (not to be confused with the Science Center) will house permanently the Center for Genomic Research and consolidate a mass spectrometer operation for advanced research in the basement...
...Faculty Room will be spruced up, as will office space, basement area and the exterior of the building...