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Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us. George Washington's colleagues found it hard to imagine touching the austere general on the shoulder, and we would find it even more so today. Jefferson and Adams are just as intimidating. But Ben Franklin, that genial urban entrepreneur, seems made of flesh rather than of marble, addressable by nickname, and he turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind those newfangled spectacles. He speaks to us, through his letters and hoaxes and autobiography, not with orotund rhetoric but with a chattiness and clever irony...
Looking at the students and professors at work in the laboratories of Jefferson Hall, home to Harvard’s physics department, Holton sees a positive trend...
...officer assisted Environment Health and Safety officials in securing a leaking nitrogen tank at Jefferson...
...course, interracial intimacy has been a fact of life in the region since African slaves first arrived in the U.S.--and white slave owners like Thomas Jefferson began sneaking into the slave quarters at night. But what used to be branded clandestine lust has finally evolved into sanctioned love: black-white interracial marriages in Alabama have more than tripled, from 297 in 1990 to 1,000 in 2000, or about 2.5% of the married couples in the state. An additional 1% of Alabama marriages are unions also involving Asians, Latinos and Native Americans. "It's out of the bigots' hands...
...latest issue of The American Prospect, a left-wing political magazine, Editor-at-Large Harold Meyerson has a piece entitled “The Most Dangerous President Ever.” George W. Bush, he contends, bears an alarming resemblance to the Confederacy’s Jefferson Davis. Like Bush, Davis “had dreams of building an empire at gunpoint,” and, “as with Davis, obtaining Bush’s defeat is an urgent matter of national security—and national honor.” In denouncing the president?...