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...cost of the holiday--about $325 million, by his reckoning--and added that he had worked to place a bust of King in the U.S. Capitol. Lott's open sentimentality about the Confederacy has continued unabated. In 1998 he spoke at the dedication of a library at Confederate leader Jefferson Davis' last home, on the beachfront in Biloxi, Miss., saying "Sometimes I feel closer to Jefferson Davis than any other man in America...
...Half Vatican, half Disney World, the Holy See is a particularly fitting home for Caodaism, a kaleidoscopic faith that combines all the major world religions and counts Julius Caesar, Thomas Jefferson and Vladimir Lenin among its saints. Since its recognition by Vietnam's communist government in 1997, Caodaism has flourished, and now tourists flock to its mecca in Tay Ninh province, about 90 kilometers northwest of Ho Chi Minh City. Visitors can wander the gaudy halls of the Holy See in search of enlightenment?or an eyeful. Murals depict the sacred eye of God in a triangle and recreate...
...pride poles and join the New Mississippi. The great irony is that Lott's Republican colleague in the Senate, Thad Cochran, is seen in the state as a moderate leader sensitive to the plight of the poor, a man with no tolerance for racist code-language, bigoted euphemisms and Jefferson Davis homages. He is a Bush Republican, a true compassionate conservative...
Last week’s denial was based on an 1869 Canadian patent law and an archaic definition of an invention as a “composition of matter.” This wording appears in United States patent law as well and originates with Thomas Jefferson, said David Morrow, the Ottawa lawyer who represented Harvard before the court...
WERE THE FOUNDING FATHERS CONCERNED WITH ETIQUETTE? George Washington felt that every inch of his person was setting a pattern. So did Jefferson, but in the opposite direction. He rejected all hierarchy. His guests complained that he entertained in slippers. But they were both convinced that European etiquette was outmoded. The question was, How do you treat people as equals and still have respect, and still have a government...