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...Independence and championed the Louisiana Purchase. He founded the University of Virginia and built Monticello. Yet Jefferson the man remains an extraordinarily elusive and ambivalent figure. Historian Dumas Malone, one of the most acute Jeffersonists, ruefully wrote: "I flattered myself that some time I would fully comprehend and encompass him. I do not claim that I have yet done so, and I do not believe that I or any other single person...
...those interested in organized touring, the Charles River Wheelmen have rides almost every weekend and will provide a wealth of good advice. The Wheelmen encompass the full range of riders, from weekend daytrippers to international Tourists familiar with the most exotic of places...
...made of "other high Crimes and Misdemeanors"? The phrase was a compromise arrived at by the founding fathers after considerable debate, but it was only dimly understood then-or since. Not long after the phrase was incorporated into the U.S. Constitution, the British, who invented it to encompass both criminal acts and behavior that tended to undermine a government's integrity, discarded it. The impeachment provision led an exasperated Tocqueville to complain: "Nothing can be more alarming than the vagueness with which political offenses are described in America...
According to the axiom that it's darkest right before dawn, a huge sunbeam should encompass the Indoor Athletic Building Monday morning. Harvard's weekend basketball hopes are about as dim as the overhead lighting in the antiquated sports complex...
...should not be allowed to become the pawn when the health and welfare of the world depend upon it. One dreams of the day when an effective U.N. could be responsible for the distribution and supply of world essentials, with proper reimbursement to the nation whose boundaries encompass the needed commodity...