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...White points out that some of the cooking expertise in the African-American community was not happily obtained. "We cooked so much on the plantation and the big house," she says. "We cooked so much in our early days - we cooked for Thomas Jefferson at those wonderful, lavish feasts that he had; we cooked on the Pullman railroad trains. I think we did pretty much the majority of the cooking in this country until the early '50s. Because we do have such a long history of cooking, with the rise of the black bourgeoisie, one of the things that...
...chocolates"--and Jeremy Siegel's "stocks for the long run." Siegel, 56, a professor at Wharton, turned his catchphrase into the title of a best-selling 1994 book, in which he showed that stocks had trounced bonds and cash over every 30-year period from Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton. Siegel's book coincided with--and helped fuel--a long bull market, and America became a buy-and-hold nation. In 1994 stock funds held $853 billion; by 1999 they had $4 trillion...
Player’s debutante ball typified the nostalgic Southern mentality. “There were definitely pictures of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee,” she remembers. “And then all of the Citadels who were there were in their little gray uniforms with their tassels.” On a more serious note, Player also noticed that many of the guests were uneasy with her diverse group of guests. “I was the oddball,” she says. “My roommate is Puerto Rican, my boyfriend is Cuban...
...haven’t decided if I will be a candidate again,” he told an audience of about 300 in Jefferson Hall...
...Cato Institute analyst points out, Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that the only legitimate governments are those based on the consent of the governed, a consent that Americans have given for 200 years. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, instead of promoting fairness, undermines this system of debate and free election...