Word: jeffersons
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David Clohessy, a St. Louis political consultant who has a lawsuit pending against a priest, asserts, "The sexual abuse was terrible, but I think the response of the hierarchy is almost as bad." He says that when Bishop Michael McAuliffe of Jefferson City, Mo., learned of the case last year, the bishop turned the matter over to his lawyers without confronting the priest. Since then, the priest has been put on administrative leave, pending review...
...Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota, believes that PCR will revolutionize everything from medicine and biology to anthropology and history. It is a prospect he finds both exhilarating and disturbing. Technically, it would be possible, by examining DNA samples from the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and those of his slave Sally Hemings, to determine once and for all whether Jefferson, as rumored, fathered some of Hemings' children. Would this be an appropriate use of the new technology? "Let me put it this way," says Caplan. "Because of PCR, I'm not worried about going...
Some version of this theme is sure to figure in the Democrats' presidential campaign next year. It's a safe bet their candidate won't echo John F. Kennedy's exhortation to "pay any price, bear any burden." Instead, Thomas Jefferson's warning against entangling alliances is back in fashion. Reston endorses John Quincy Adams' injunction to go "not abroad in search of monsters to destroy," while Hyland offers his own version: "The enemy is not at the gate, but it may already be inside...
...some respects from Ailey's -- he encouraged dancers to discover their own mistakes, she is more direct about what she wants; he shied away from fund raising and publicity, she embraces both -- but their artistic goals are the same. "Her aesthetic is built on Alvin's," says Denise Jefferson, director of the company's dance school. "The transition was smooth because Judy was coming home...
...quieter, tidier land if we all agreed on everything and, if those who didn't would shut up. But in the voice of the dissident, the oddball and the minority, however wrongheaded from one's own point of view, we should learn to hear the echoes of men like Jefferson and Paine. They didn't goose-step to the tune of the reigning authority. They didn't shut up when more timid souls said it wasn't wise to speak. And suppose they had? Then the flag we'd be pinning to our lapels today would be the Union Jack...