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...document Jefferson drafted was in some ways similar to what Franklin would have written. It contained a highly specific bill of particulars against the British, and it recounted, as Franklin had often done, the details of America's attempts to be conciliatory despite England's intransigence. Indeed, Jefferson's words echoed some of the language that Franklin had used, earlier that year, in a draft resolution that he never published: "Whereas, whenever kings, instead of protecting the lives and properties of their subjects, as is their bounden duty, do endeavor to perpetrate the destruction of either, they thereby cease...
When he had finished a draft and incorporated some changes from Adams, Jefferson sent it to Franklin on the morning of Friday, June 21. "Will Doctor Franklin be so good as to peruse it," he wrote in his cover note, "and suggest such alterations as his more enlarged view of the subject will dictate?" People were much more polite to editors back then...
...story than global branding. Just like the NBA, in whose games players from 34 nations appeared last season, European soccer leagues now recruit their stars internationally. And the fact that they do sheds more light on European economics and society than you will ever get from reading the new draft of a constitution for the European Union. Until quite recently, soccer in Europe was organized mainly on national lines. There were strict limits to the number of non-nationals a club could field in a game. In 1995 a decision of the European Court of Justice invalidated those protectionist rules...
...Climate change has global consequences for human health and environment." ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, in a draft of a new report. The White House removed the sentence, along with other references to global-warming risks, and replaced it with more innocuous language...
...Twelve draft picks came from the ECAC, including Rangers’ first-round pick (12th overall) Hugh Jessiman of Dartmouth, last season’s runaway ECAC Rookie of the Year. Cornell’s five draft picks were the most in the league, and the Big Red is second in the ECAC to Harvard with seven overall...