Word: jefferson
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...people in New Orleans who were granted permits to carry a concealed weapon more than doubled, to 85, over the same period in 2005 - before Katrina, when the city's population was by most estimates at least twice what it is today. The increase was even starker in neighboring Jefferson Parish, where concealed weapon permit applications shot...
...Since Katrina, weapons sales at Jefferson Gun Outlet in suburban Metairie are up about 40%, says the store's owner, Mike Mayer. And it's not the usual gun hobbyists that are buying. "They're not gun aficionados," Mayer says. "They're just doing it because they feel they have...
Mansfield, the controversial and conservative Kenan professor of government who last year published a much debated book on manliness, will deliver the 2007 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Mansfield receives a $10,000 honorarium for the appearance...
...Egypt, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice planned to curl up with Michael Oren's Power, Faith and Fantasy, America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present. Recommending the bestseller to the reporters traveling with her, she noted that American involvement in the region went back to Thomas Jefferson...
...Rice is a passionate reader, to be sure, but her allusion to Jefferson, who wrestled with Barbary pirate attacks on American sailors two centuries ago, may also have been her way of illustrating the intractability of Mideast problems - and of lowering expectations. As she embarked late Friday on a four-day swing across the region, Rice knew very well how little time she had left to work toward the breathtakingly ambitious goal set by President Bush: the creation of a Palestinian state that could live alongside Israel in peace...