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According to Mead, the Hamiltonian school supports pragmatic and situational solutions, the Jacksonian school is populist and values military prowess, the Wilsonian school believes in a moral commitment to the rest of the world and the Jeffersonian school favors a limited degree of intervention...
...Every member of Congress has a posse - people who, in addition to their day job, do the driving, gather the intelligence, tell the boss his floor speech was positively Jeffersonian. Authorities want to know whether Dayton's duties went beyond that. First they want to know what happened the night he reportedly drove Condit to a Virginia suburb to dispose of a case that once contained a watch that had been given to the Congressman by a former staff member, Joleen Argentini McKay. Second, they want to hear more about Dayton's recent conversations with McKay. McKay told USA Today...
Gerhard Sonnert, a physics research assistant and a member of the working group's coordinating committee, said he was excited by the opportunity to discuss issues like "Jeffersonian science," a combination of research science and social awareness...
...Jeffersonian science, however, calls for a broader approach to basic research science which also encompasses social objectives, and thus might be more enticing to women and minorities, he said...
...Congress has earmarked $100 million is a fantasy, and there's a growing fear that the damage wrought by sanctions to Iraq's social fabric may have condemned the country to decades more of despotism. Even if Saddam were miraculously overthrown, it's extremely unlikely to be by a Jeffersonian democrat. And a decade of sanctions hasn't exactly fostered enthusiasm for the West among ordinary Iraqis...