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THOSE #&%* EDITORS! They made 86 cuts and changes ("mutilations," said the author), but the work still became an American best seller. Last week Thomas Jefferson got to say the last word, every single one, when the full draft of his Declaration of Independence went on display at the Newseum in Arlington, Va., on loan from the New York Public Library. An angry Jefferson underlined Congress's changes. One of its telling deletions: a denunciation of King George for maintaining slavery...
...reign has been storied. She sang at Martin Luther King's funeral and at William Jefferson Clinton's Inaugural gala. She has worked with Carole King and Puff Daddy. The Michigan legislature once declared her voice to be one of the state's natural resources...
Pelikan is a member of President Clinton'sCommittee on the Arts and Humanities and wasappointed Jefferson Lecturer by the NationalEndowment for the Humanities...
...that is putting a high-minded gloss on the behavior, as if the auditorium of one's mind were always resounding to symposiums on Wittgenstein or on human rights in Myanmar. Caught me talking to myself? Just another oral presentation of apodictic obiter dicta on the solo stage! Thomas Jefferson dines alone! Shakespeare's soliloquies elevated talking to oneself to the highest art; on the other hand, Hamlet may not have been traveling with a full seabag either...
...Metall, the union that represents German autoworkers, whether the Americans and Canadians get seats on the board. Pending that, most workers seemed pleased. "I just hope my stock goes up and I can buy a Mercedes with my Chrysler discount," laughed an employee from Chrysler's Jefferson North assembly plant, on Detroit's gritty east side...