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...would be easy to chalk up the entire family squabble to racism. After all, a primary reason the Hemings liaison was widely doubted before the DNA results were published was that testimony from former black slaves was dismissed by white historians as unreliable gossip. Blacks were not the only ones who supported the story, however. Numerous white journalists in Jefferson's time reported the story and believed it to be true. Jefferson's fellow Founding Father John Adams, who had seen Hemings' beauty firsthand (she was known as "Dashing Sally"), also seemed to believe that Jefferson had had an affair...
...poor for their position, it’s this type of anecdotal evidence that often deludes people into thinking that the poverty problem is one that really shouldn’t concern them. The easy way out of addressing this very prevalent social problem is, of course, to chalk it up to others’ lack of motivation to improve their own lot. By doing that, it allows you to evince a sort of sympathy for those in destitution, without actually advocating that something be done about it—it isn’t your problem that...
...Abashidze to Russia." That same night, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, Igor Ivanov, arrived to tell Abashidze it was time to go, and they soon left for Moscow. As Abashidze flew into exile, fireworks flared over the regional capital, Batumi, and celebrations erupted on the streets. Chalk up another bloodless victory for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's "rose revolution." Last November, crowds of determined but peaceful demonstrators, protesting against poverty and corruption, convinced Shevardnadze that he had lost control of Georgia, and the former Soviet Foreign Minister stepped down to allow Saakashvili to take over without violence. Saakashvili...
...Chalk it up to be what whatever you want, but preppiness is just another way for Harvard to distinguish itself from the rest of the world. We don’t major (God forbid)—we concentrate. We don’t live in dorms (cringe!)—we reside in Houses. And we certainly don’t dress without needlepoint belts and collars (popped, of course)—we parade our Nantucket reds and salmon-champagnes as proudly as our crimsons...
...were sent to college. These latter people have been exposed to learning, but it never took. Many of them pass, as we call it, and leave college no better educated than when they entered. The difference between those who come and those who were sent is as between chalk and cheese...