Word: jefferson
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...number of Reagan appointees climbed to a third of the 761 federal judgeships, opponents in Congress have started digging in their heels and building support. Two weeks ago, in the first such defeat for the Administration, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10 to 8 to reject the nomination of Jefferson Sessions, 39, the U.S. Attorney in Mobile picked for a federal district court judgeship in Alabama. Witnesses said that Sessions had called the N.A.A.C.P. and several other civil rights groups ''un-American,'' and once remarked that he had thought Ku Klux Klan members were ''O.K.'' until he found out they...
...that will live in infamy,'' declared TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, referring to the Supreme Court's reaffirmation last week of Roe vs. Wade. Citing Thomas Jefferson, the Republican presidential aspirant called the high court an ''unelected oligarchy'' and assailed the Justices as ''despots.'' Some 1,200 delegates to the National Right to Life Committee's convention in Denver applauded warmly. Then came New York's Republican Congressman Jack Kemp, a more conventional politician and a virtually certain candidate for the 1988 presidential nomination. Kemp took a broader view, shunning personal attacks on the Justices and appealing for ''not just...
...chose him--after a succession of Presidents: Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Kennedy, as well as explorers Lewis and Clark and inventor Ben Franklin--because he represents a vital tradition in American politics and culture: the comedic commentator on serious matters, the funnyman as our collective conscience who can utter uncomfortable truths that more solemn critics evade. In an election year when so many Americans are getting their news from nontraditional sources, Twain is the godfather of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as well as the comic voices who influenced them, from Lenny Bruce to Richard Pryor to Kurt Vonnegut...
...museum itself? It's entertaining and briskly informative, filled with flat-screen TVs showing period footage and glass cases that hold things like old Jefferson Airplane album covers. I enjoyed it well enough. But I was never able to shake the feeling that the place that really preserves the spirit of Woodstock is that big open field outside. Woodstock was the last great event of the 19th century, a delayed outburst of Romantic-era communalism and nature worship. It was built on sentiments that aren't conveyed very well by institutional means. So if you visit the museum, which...
Rahn attended the prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., while DeBergalis grew up in Indiana and attended high school in San Juan, P.R. As an undergraduate, Rahn lived in Quincy House and joint-concentrated in math and physics, while DeBergalis studied computer science at MIT. (During his time there, he became good friends with Kathy Paur, a math whiz in her own right who would eventually marry Rahn...