Word: jeffersonism
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...commissioners of Alabama's Jefferson County announced last week that they would no longer use prison inmates on road gangs. Penal reform? No. In part, at least, a fear of AIDS. If a citizen caught the incurable disease from a prisoner, explained Commissioner Ray Moore, the county might be sued. Despite evidence that the AIDS virus can be transmitted only through an exchange of blood or semen, Moore claimed that "the danger was great," even though the likelihood of anyone's having intimate contact with convicts on a road crew would seem slight...
...rising water forced the National Park Service to close the Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln monuments, and K Street in historic Georgetown was awash, as a giant low-pressure system moved up the Atlantic Seaboard last week, unloading ten to twelve inches of rain into the James, Potomac and Roanoke river basins. But while Washington was getting its feet wet, parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland were devastated...
...first race at Louisiana's Jefferson Downs on May 20 1977, and strutted into another 38 more winner's circles over the years, earning a record $6.5 million, $2.5 million more than his nearest competitor. Two weeks ago, a few days before he was scheduled to begin his 84th race, at Hollywood Park in California, John Henry injured a tendon in his right foreleg during a routine workout. Last week Sam Rubin, who bought the high-spirited gelding for $25,000 seven years ago, announced that racing's grand old superstar was finally retiring from the track. The two-time...
Henry Wechsler, a lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), claims that binge drinking at universities is as old as the Louisiana Purchase. “Thomas Jefferson complained about it when he was president of the University of Virginia,” Wechsler says. At Harvard, the alcoholic ethos is equally ancient. In the nineteenth century, commencement ceremonies were presided over by a sheriff, several police officers, and two judges in order to control the students’ raucous “gambling, drinking, swearing, and fighting,” Wechsler writes in his book Dying...
...mere threat of legislation can create a chill. Law professor Robert O'Neil, director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, calls this "regulation by raised eyebrow. If it goes too far, it gets out of hand. Then the government is at risk of acting beyond its constitutional powers." And that chill can have effects far beyond what the FCC is empowered to do directly. Says Shield creator Shawn Ryan: "There will be things that we will never see, that are victims of this mind-set. Nobody is really brave enough to take away the shows...