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...500th anniversary of 1492 is approaching. Remember 1492? "In Fourteen Hundred Ninety-Two/ Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Discovery and exploration. Bolivar and Jefferson. Liberty and democracy. The last best hope...
...contemplation of anything intelligent -- it need not be writing -- helps the mind through the black hours. Mozart, for example; music like bright ice water, or, say, the memory of the serene Palladian lines of Jefferson's Monticello. These things realign the mind and teach it not to be petty. All honest thought is a form of prayer. I read Samuel Johnson ("Despair is criminal") and go back to sleep...
With six categories available, ranging from "great" (Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, F.D.R.) to "failure" (Andrew Johnson, Buchanan, Nixon, Grant, Harding), Reagan was placed in the the next-to-last group. Reagan was outranked by Jimmy Carter and Jerry Ford ("average") and topped only Nixon of the modern Presidents...
...life took a dramatic turn, she says, in the summer before she was supposed to leave for Charlottesville and the campus planned by Thomas Jefferson. An automobile accident in July 1987 left her comatose for a week, and it took her nearly a year to recuperate fully...
...applaud Ms. Kerrigan for celebrating the South while being surrounded in Yankee culture. But which South is she celebrating? Is it hers, or mine--or ours? Is it the South of Jefferson Davis, Nathan Bedford Forest, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee? Or is it the South of David Duke, Bull Connor and Jesse Helms...