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...future, we crave a better understanding of what the man credited with most eloquently expressing the American creed felt about race. What did Jefferson think about black people? How does his relationship with Sally Hemings complete our picture of him? How should we, in a more racially enlightened era, interpret what we know about his thoughts and actions...
...well in the cold war and was looking for a reason to exist. By the late 1990s the NSA was becoming obsolete, unable to keep up with the pace of technological change. The NSA netted millions more conversations at its worldwide listening posts than it could translate or interpret. The agency spent billions to eavesdrop on chatter overseas that moved by satellite--only to see the world move to harder-to-steal digitized cellular, e-mail and instant-messaging communications. Meanwhile, at the NSA's sprawling Fort Meade, Md., campus, the agency's director could not send an email...
...have an ideological playground where we can organize, write, debate, protest—even physically invade other peoples’ office space—with minuscule effect and correspondingly miniscule consequences. The result is a culture that encourages us to form and express cogent arguments and opinions, to interpret the world in a productive and reflective manner—and to do so in an environment where fear of failure discourages no one from participating...
Straight people have embraced some pretty gay songs over the years (the Village People's Y.M.C.A., Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax, the Queen catalog). You can interpret this as the gradual acceptance of gay culture or as the mainstream's enduring obliviousness to it. (The Village People did not drop by the YMCA to pump iron.) Now here's a song about coming out to Mom by a group named after a lesbian sex act. You'd think only Liza Minnelli could mistake them for straight. But Take Your Mama also happens to be the most complete pop tune...
...required to obey the law,” Verba explains. “We attempt to interpret the law as best...