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Even as the U.S. nears the venerable age of 200, there lingers the colonist's sense of style lost, of some fragile wine of culture that did not travel well to Plymouth Rock and Jamestown. 'Europeans know how to live', goes the American cliché. Many Europeans might quarrel with that assertion, but there are nonetheless the beginnings of an instructive debate on preserving and enhancing life-styles in the Old World. It turns on the concept of what some call the bonheur national brut, or gross national happiness, an index of the quality of life...
Powell's family heritage well qualifies him for nomination to the Supreme Court's "Southern seat." The first Powell to land in America arrived in 1607, one of the original Jamestown colonists. Powell himself was born in Suffolk, Va., won undergraduate and law degrees from Washington and Lee (Phi Beta Kappa and first in his class) and Harvard Law School, and now occupies an office overlooking a Richmond landmark, the home of Robert...
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Charles Ellsworth Goodell has always been a comer-and often a pusher. A Phi Beta Kappa at Williams College ('48), a Yale law grad and a onetime semipro baseball star, he became a trial lawyer back home in Jamestown, N.Y., and was voted to Congress as a Republican Representative in a 1959 special election...
Decline & Rescue. One of America's first planned cities, Williamsburg was laid out in 1699 by Governor Francis Nicholson as a replacement for the outgrown capital of Jamestown. It thrived until late in the Revolutionary War, when the rebel government, fearful of a British attack from the sea, moved the capital inland to Richmond. With only the College of William and Mary and a state insane asylum left to support the town, Williamsburg slowly declined into a sleepy bastion of seedy gentility...