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...covert. To engage in secret actions and be caught is one thing. To persist in this conduct after it has been exposed is something else. The Reagan Administration's policy in Nicaragua may not only be a failure. It also flies in the face of what Thomas Jefferson once described as "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind...
...donating our values to the kids for them to pick up," Bechtold says. Judith Y. Shields '84 chairman of the active Currier committee, points to the $10,000 her House donated to the Jefferson Park housing project in the Fitzgerald neighborhood--the proceeds of the winter's dance marathon--as a major project...
Gretchen Klopfer '84, chairman of the PBH Education Committee, says that in her work at a writing/tutoring center at Jefferson Park she does run across occasional prejudice. "But if you have the attitude of 'Here I am, I want to work in the community' instead of marching in and taking over, it isn't much of a problem," she adds...
...shadowy George Mason, near neighbor of Washington's and brilliant political writer, drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights in Williamsburg. A copy was dispatched to Philadelphia, where Jefferson read it just before he sat down to draft the Declaration of Independence. His masterwork had many glints of Mason...
...studied prodigiously for their beliefs, a diligence that became the young nation's defining trait. Lawyer George Wythe, whose house on the green is a visual joy, started a student in Greek at dawn and by evening had taken him through Latin, mathematics, French and English literature. Young Jefferson studied 15 hours out of every 24. "Determine never to be idle," he told his daughter. "It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." No better epigraph could be found for the leaders meeting at Williamsburg two centuries later...