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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...
...government said grant money was illicitly paid to staff who did not work on the aging project and to others who did work on the project, but did not meet the citizenship requirements of the grant...
DIED. JAMES M. ROCHE, 97, former head of General Motors who guided the company through the turbulent 1960s; in Belleair, Fla. After starting his 44-year career at GM as a statistician, he got the top job in 1967 and helped steer the automaker toward better corporate citizenship as Detroit struggled in the aftermath of the 1968 riots. In 1971 he nominated to GM's board the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, who became one of the first African Americans to serve on a major corporate board...
...would have to become an American citizen in order to be an astronaut for NASA, which Mohamed says is an unlikely prospect. And though she also studied Russian here with the hope of joining the Russian space program, their citizenship criteria will likely also keep her from entering outer space...
...allegedly groped a graduate student at the intersection of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets around 8 p.m. on Jan. 20. Using footage from surveillance cameras, police arrested University Health Services custodian Geremias Cruz Ramos, 27, of Revere, Mass., around 10 p.m. He was under a detainer from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) at the time of his arrest and turned over to the custody of immigration services...