Word: enlightenedness
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Jefferson, a lifelong Francophile, desperately wanted to like Napoleon. Three years before he would double the size of the U.S. by purchasing the Louisiana Territory from the French ruler, Jefferson was struggling from afar to understand Napoleon's increasingly power-hungry motives. At first, Jefferson held out hope that France...
Of all the Founding Fathers, it was Thomas Jefferson for whom the issue of race loomed largest. In the roles of slaveholder, public official and family man, the relationship between blacks and whites was something he thought about, wrote about and grappled with from his cradle to his grave. Jefferson...
“Enlightened American leadership” is necessary, Annan said, to give multilateral institutions—such as the U.N.—the ability to address these issues, and greater cooperation among nations is essential to combatting challenges such as world poverty and the spread of infectious...
“Enlightened American leadership” is necessary, Annan said, to give multilateral institutions—such as the U.N.—the ability to address these issues, and greater cooperation among nations is essential to combatting challenges such as world poverty and the spread of infectious...
In typically disingenuous fashion, Burma's military leaders are hailing the country's ongoing National Convention as a historic landmark. Last week, Prime Minister Khin Nyunt visited Malaysia and Thailand to sell the event as part of Burma's enlightened transition to what he calls a "modern democratic state." But...