Word: jeffersonism
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...from his voracious reading. "This morning," he wrote recently in his diary, "I read an hour or so of The Razor's Edge (Somerset Maugham's novel about a restless man searching for inner understanding). It always had good meanings for me." Another morning he rereads portions of Thomas Jefferson's autobiography. "One thing struck me," wrote Cuomo, "the logical forcefulness of his debate...
Mario Matthew Cuomo, 53, the Governor of New York, is both of these men, the man of strenuous action and the man of otherworldly contemplation. Like the titans he frequently invokes--Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt--he is a man who battles inwardly between passion and reason, between his ambition and his doubts. Some believe that out of this man's head and heart may come the soul of a new Democratic Party, and perhaps the strength to lead it to the White House...
...growth. The bill's virtual abolition of tax shelters, for example, could stop the flow of investment capital into ventures that deliberately lose money to create tax breaks. The Senate committee's bill "is certainly the best version we have seen thus far," observed Du Pont Chairman Edward Jefferson. Said Robert Beck, chairman of the Prudential insurance company: "I could take that - bill and run with it. It is a super approach...
...citizens of Missouri, who had generously donated the finery. With the Missouri returning to action, the Navy wanted the silver back. Problem was, Missouri Governor John Ashcroft wanted to hang on to the ship's engraved punch-bowl set, which has been on display at the state capital in Jefferson City. Finally, with the U.S. Attorney in Kansas City acting as mediator, the Navy and the state compromised: when the Missouri is at sea, all the silver is hers. But when she is in home port, the Navy will make the punch bowl available to the state. Grog all around...
...bathrooms--Cruft, Carpenter Center, Conant Lab, Converse, Jefferson Labs, and Robinson...