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What happened in Geneva was participatory summitry. Reagan went about his business as he always does in that environment, firmly rooted in Thomas Jefferson's doctrine that freedom is a God-given right and James Madison's conviction that some participants will try to corrupt freedom, but more will try to protect...
...this week's cover, TIME correspondents talked to scores of expectant mothers in clinics, schools, teen centers, adoption agencies and welfare offices. Angela Helton, 15, the blue-eyed blond on our cover, attends the Teenage Parent Program of the Jefferson County, Ky., public schools and is now the mother of a son, Corey. Photographer Duane Michals, who took Helton's picture and those of many other pregnant teens, observes: "They came across as girls, not women. They seemed to be playing house. A lot of them did not understand the enormousness of having a child...
Distantly related to Aaron Burr, who was Thomas Jefferson's Vice President when he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, the People Express chairman was a brash achiever from the start. His father was an M.I.T.-trained engineer and his mother a social worker, and young Burr remembers going to the neighborhood drugstore to admire not only its candy counter but also the proprietor's efficient storekeeping methods. In high school Burr sang in the barbershop quartet and played saxophone in the band. He went in for varsity soccer, basketball and baseball, and proceeded straight to the expert slope...
...some jokes specifically for Harvard. At the start of his speech, he played the part of the awestruck tourist, wondering aloud, “So this is Harvard?...The greatest gathering of intellects since Thomas Jefferson dined alone...
...ages, go to war and occasion thousands of deaths in the name of self-evident truths and unalienable rights endowed by the Creator? That was 1776. The universality, the sacredness and the divine origin of freedom are enshrined in our founding document. The Founders, believers all, signed it. Thomas Jefferson wrote it. And not even Jefferson, the most skeptical of the lot, had the slightest doubt about...