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...Jefferson K. Porter, director of development for the institute, says he was impressed by Bollinger's willingness to delve into an area unfamiliar to him not because of a personal interest, but because he "realized that it was for the greater intrinsic good of the university...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Profile of a Prospect: Lee C. Bollinger | 1/23/2001 | See Source »

...interview in Southern Partisan, Ashcroft praised the neo-Confederate magazine for defending "Southern patriots" like Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson. The magazine has long argued slavery was beneficial to blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ashcroft Battle: Confirmation Fight | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

Ashcroft lost that race but got a break in 1975, when he was named an assistant state attorney general under John Danforth. Ashcroft found himself working in a 16-ft. by 16-ft. office in Jefferson City alongside another Danforth protege whose career was on the rise: Clarence Thomas. The two men could not have been more different. Thomas was more liberal then, with an easygoing manner and appetite for night life. Ashcroft was "prim and proper," a colleague recalled, and Thomas loved to make sport with him, get under Ashcroft's skin. At times Ashcroft would leave a room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ashcroft Battle: The Fight for Justice | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...Attorney General and Gale Norton's for Interior Secretary, the Civil War has appeared like one of those weekend battle re-enactments with folks in period costume. Ashcroft is under fire for giving an interview to a pro-Confederate magazine, Southern Partisan, in which he praised icons like Jefferson Davis while lauding the publication for helping "set the record straight." Two columnists for the magazine are members of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a self-styled "white-rights" group based in St. Louis, Mo., which is part of the coalition supporting Ashcroft's nomination. For his part, Ashcroft has called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ashcroft Battle: Republicans And The Rebel Yell | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...then Bush, paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson, bade the transfer of power farewell and took his place in the American timeline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Opening High Note | 1/20/2001 | See Source »

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