Word: jeffersons
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Some medical schools are also attempting to entice more students into primary care, mainly by exposing them to the satisfactions of the field. Third-year students at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, for example, rotate through family-medicine clerkships that get them out of intensive care and into private practices and clinics. And the University of Minnesota identifies students with an interest in primary care and places them under the tutelage of respected role models. Both schools report a higher than average percentage of graduates who decide to become generalists...
...breakfast of religious leaders, scorched the Democrats for failing to mention God in their platform and declaimed that a President needs to believe in the Almighty. What about the constitutional ban on "religious test((s))" for public office? the Founding Fathers would want to know. What about Tom + Jefferson's conviction that it is possible for a nonbeliever to be a moral person, "find((ing)) incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise"? Even George Washington must shudder in his sleep to hear the constant emphasis on "Judeo-Christian values." It was he who wrote...
...Declaration of Independence refers to a deity, but only in the most generic terms -- "Nature's God," the "Creator," "Providence" -- calculated not to offend the doubters and deists (who believed that God had designed the universe, then left it to nature to run). Jefferson was a renowned doubter, urging his nephew to "question with boldness even the existence of a God." John Adams was at least a skeptic, as were of course the revolutionary firebrands Tom Paine and Ethan Allen. Naturally, they designed a republic in which they themselves would have a place...
...ways of the Wasp linger today, despite condoms and Madonna. America attracts hard workers from abroad and breeds them at home, whatever Japanese politicians may think. Thomas Jefferson could still vaguely recognize our politics (Aaron Burr would certainly recognize our dirty politics). Survey after survey finds that Americans are the most religious people in the industrialized world, and the seriousness with which we take our sex scandals amazes cynical Europeans...
...stumbling blocks to acknowledging and proclaiming such once obvious truths may be the figure of George Bush, who is the most visible Wasp in America right now. But Bush is more post-Wasp than genuine article. Thomas Jefferson didn't think in cliches and speak in mush. There is also a lot worse in Wasp history than George Bush's inarticulateness, with slavery standing at the top of the list. The best defense of Waspdom is that it always included people who saw that slavery was wrong, and when it came to a fight, they won the war and (thanks...