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...long, long time and seems unlikely to appear again soon: a philosopher-President. The son of wealthy, high-born, landed parents, Jefferson trained as a lawyer in the days when this meant memorizing and analyzing centuries worth of British common law. Along the way, he mastered Latin and Greek, several of the leading European languages and enough philosophy, science and mathematics that during his term as John Adams' Vice President, he was also chosen to head the American Philosophical Society. It was to this group that Jefferson, a self-trained paleontologist, presented one of his prize possessions: the fossilized bones...
...know the Greek adage "those whom the gods would destroy they first make angry"? It's not good for a person to be as mad underneath as I was. I think if people have unresolved anger it makes them do nonrational, destructive things. People ask me all the time, they say, "What you did during the government shutdown with Monica Lewinsky didn't make any sense, so explain. How could you do this? You knew Ken Starr was looking over your shoulder...
...S.B.C. leaders hoped that the sanction would shame "that woman," however, they were wrong. "Paul did have some pretty rigid things to say" about women, the Rev. Shelton admits. "But you have to consider it in historical context. Paul also said in Galatians, 'There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Jesus Christ...
...pressure, and unfortunately de Bernières doesn't live up to it. The book's setting is promising enough. De Bernières' first four novels were all set in picturesque but war-torn corners of the world - Latin America or, for Captain Corelli's Mandolin, the Greek island of Cephallonia. And so Birds tells of the pretty, fictional Turkish coastal town of Telmessos during and after World War I. Greeks and Turks live harmoniously there until 1923, when aggressive expansionism and horrific fighting between the two nations culminates in a population exchange - Turks deported to Turkey, Greeks...
...He’s able to encompass so many pursuits: the future doctor, student of ancient Greek poetry, firefighter extraordinaire and unflinching Republican,” Watson says. “There is no segment of his life in which he does not have the drive to excel...