Word: jeffersonism
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...ISRAELI'S KILLING RABIN is comparable to an American's gunning down someone essential to the birth and development of the assassin's home nation, someone like a James Madison or Thomas Jefferson. Rabin was more than a head of state: he devoted his life to establishing the state of Israel. BRAD MISLOW Decatur, Georgia...
...postscript, perhaps it would be educational to remind readers that Thomas Jefferson, Nelson Mandela and Alexander Solzhenitsyn were men who exploited the forum of free speech to attack the "core values" of there states. Ben Shacher's vision would have all these men arrested under charges of edition, as men whose opinions for "outside the permitted parameters" Ben-Shachar provides no answer on how a government can safely distinguish between Nelson Mandela and Timothy McVeigh, both of whom called for the collapse of the state. Devin McLachlan...
...always tended to turn in on itself--Washington famously maintained in his farewell address that "it is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world." Jefferson, too, warned against "entangling alliances." Even as its power has grown, America's expansiveness toward other countries has waxed and waned, as have the world's expectations of America. But conditions are such that it is again necessary to ask what U.S. relations with other nations ought to be and what they can be. The President is only intermittently engaged in foreign affairs. Congress is increasingly...
Donald cites many examples of Lincoln's reliance on humor to get a point across and to diffuse a difficult or awkward situation. Donald describes how Lincoln used an anecdote to convey his wish that Jefferson Davis and other high-ranking leaders of the Confederacy be allowed to flee the country. He could not state this openly. As president he would be obligated to hunt down and execute the traitors, but as a man believing in "malice towards none, charity for all," he just wished they would disappear. Lincoln told Sherman a story "about a man who declined a drink...
Tuttleton, masquerading as Trent Reznor of Nine-Inch Nails, manned a make-up table outside the dining hall. Assisting her was Hannah E. "Jefferson" Schott '96, sporting a pair of breeches...