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...Liberal leaders were once notorious for handpicking ethnic minority candidates to run in multicultural constituencies, but they're no longer the only ones courting the Asian vote. With a million Chinese and an equal number of South Asians now living in Canada, the two groups constitute half of the country's visible minority population and account for nearly 60% of its new immigrants every year. So the Conservatives, who won 99 seats, ran candidates like the Grewals in British Columbia this year, and the New Democrats (19 seats) aired TV spots featuring their multilingual party leader, Jack Layton, stumping...
...Jefferson wrote the magic words of American history, the 55 words in the Declaration of Independence that begin 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,'" says Joseph Ellis, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College and the author of the award-winning biography American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. "That promise and those words are probably the most important words in American history--and possibly all of modern history...
...wanted to order the world with words," says R.B. Bernstein, an adjunct professor at New York Law School and one of Jefferson's countless biographers. "He also tried to order American history and politics through his words. He argues about checks and balances, what equal means, what liberty means, what freedom of the press means. His command of language really does shape our intellectual, political and philosophical worlds...
...three decades, Jefferson seems as sorry for the loss of the labor as the loss of the man. For all his contradictions, it is Jefferson's views on slavery that are the most difficult to reconcile with his role as the author of the words "all men are created equal." At the time of his death, Jefferson owned about 200 slaves. Five from the Hemings family were freed, and the rest were sold...
Haiti's very existence highlighted the deepest contradictions of the American revolutionary experiment. Though the U.S. Declaration of Independence stated that all men were created equal, Haitian slaves and free men and women of color battled what was then one of the world's most powerful armies to prove it. Yet how could the man who wrote about freedom in such transcendent terms have not seen echoes of his struggle in the Haitians' urgent desire for self-rule? Possibly because as a slave owner and the leader of slaveholders, he could never reconcile dealing with one group of Africans...