Word: jeffersons
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...retirees violate the trust of people who paid into Social Security and Medicare for years. The Concord argument rests strongly on a moral plea of its own: older Americans should not burden their children and grandchildren with the task of paying off the debt. Peterson likes to quote Thomas Jefferson's observation to James Madison that passing on debt to future generations is "swindling futurity." Is it possible to make seniors sit still for such talk? Perhaps it is. The sky didn't fall when Congress approved the Clinton proposal to tax higher-income retirees on 85% of their Social...
...Paris: Thomas A. Sancton, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez...
...course, just about everyone supports the idea of a free and vigorous press. But remember the case of Thomas Jefferson, who said he "should not hesitate for a moment" to defend the right of the press over government. In theory, Jefferson supported the press. After six years as president, however, he had a vastly different sentiment. "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper," he wrote to a friend in 1807. "Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle...
...Paris: Thomas A. Sancton, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez...
...what would Jefferson think of making Dove the nation's official voice of poetry? "I think he would be dismayed and say it was a political move, an affirmative-action thing," says Dove. "But then I don't really think of him as any great judge of poetry. He was dead wrong about Phillis. She had to deal with one of the dilemmas of the black artist that still exist today, that no matter what you do there's still this feeling that it's not good enough...