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...Thomas Jefferson was just about as intrigued by the unexplored vastness between him and the Pacific Ocean as he was by forming a government for the new republic. When he came to the White House the way west was fixed in his imagination. He called the area "terra incognita" and finally sent Lewis and Clark to take a look. Jefferson understood that its hugeness, its richness, was to be the basis of American greatness. It still is, and that is the same force that touched Carter...
...organic picnics to solar power demonstrations, kite-flying contests and even a few country boys operating stills, the tenth anniversary of the first Earth Day was celebrated in hundreds of other communities across the nation last week. Celebrations in Washington, D.C., started at dawn with choral music at the Jefferson Memorial, followed by a breakfast rally in Lafayette Park for more than 500 bicycling enthusiasts, among them Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt. At Connecticut College in New London, students unveiled a new windmill that will generate enough power to run the campus radio station. In Boston, environmentalists offered natural foods...
...That the administration reconsider its negative tenure decisions on two Black professors, Jefferson Cleveland, a music professor, and Marcia Lloyd, professor...
...feels that she has betrayed her race. A romantic idealist, she struggles to convince herself that her love for Herman is a simple emotion, uncomplicated by their racial difference. But America's history of sexual relations between white men and Black women echoes of ugly racism: Southern gentlemen--even Jefferson--enjoyed frequent midnight strolls through their slave quarters, looking for Black women to sleep with; in most cases, these country squires took no responsibility for the slave children they fathered. Julia's female neighbors have not forgotten that sexual abuse and cannot help feeling that she allows Herman...
...group of squabbling managers who once exasperated their chairman. When they could not reach a consensus at a meeting, Wilson slammed his folder shut and stalked out, telling them to see him when they had something to talk about. From the time he was in high school in Jefferson City, Mo., Wilson knew he wanted to sell airplanes. Even then, he had the knack for dramatizing issues. He once led a strike by high school students to get a new playground. As the school board was deliberating its decision, Wilson had the school band oom-pah-pah-ing under...