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Nestled in New Hampshire's White Mountains, Jefferson (pop. 880) is a New England version of Garrison Keillor's fictional Lake Wobegon. These days, however, Jefferson's calm has been shattered by a real-life nightmare that might have been concocted by Horror Novelist Stephen King. Since May, 19 fires have destroyed or damaged seven homes and a motel, injuring three residents. Authorities believe the fires were set by a local arsonist...
Homeowners now eye neighbors with suspicion. Some families sleep in shifts. Others have rigged their homes with booby traps attached to guns. Says Jefferson's state senator, Charles Bond: "We're under siege. We have 800 citizens who are afraid to leave their homes even though they know they are potential homicide victims if they stay...
...ORLEANS--There are some Republicans here who would like to carve Ronald Reagan's image into Mt. Rushmore along with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt...
Harry Lee, the Jefferson Parrish Sheriff who made national headlines when he ordered his deputies to stop Blacks driving through exclusive white neighborhoods was at the convention with his wife, who showed up without credentials. Security guards moved quickly, however, to secure Mrs. Lee a "Security personnel" pass, clearly a violation of security guidelines, so she could see President Reagan's speech...
...however, Enlightenment scholars began to question the whole fabric of revealed religion. In the age of Newton, they believed that the Scriptures must be subjected to the same rigorous scientific scrutiny as the laws of nature; nothing could be taken on faith. One such self- confident rationalist was Thomas Jefferson. After leaving the White House, he wrote a biography of Jesus that kept many of the teachings but discarded numerous Gospel passages that, in his judgment, could not have been authentic. The true words, he said, were "imbedded as diamonds in dunghills...