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...PHOTOGRAPH IN LAST Thursday's New York Times showed James Sinkler after hearing that his son, Tyrone, was one of two students killed in the corridors of Brooklyn's Thomas Jefferson High School...
...hanging from her hand. Otherwise, her expression is almost identical to that of Sinkler, in the photo above--upper lip tucked in under lower lip, eyes blank. This same expression covers the faces of the teenage girls whose pictures were taken on the scene of the incident at Thomas Jefferson High...
Davey was long gone, but the damage had been done. I loved a dissipated lifestyle but needed a spiritual anchor. Where could I find it? Thomas Jefferson was awesome, but he was a snobby slave-owner; and lots of the priests at my high school were insane. All that was left for me was confusion...
...working on a mini-series on the history of baseball, scheduled to air in 1994. He is overseeing (though not personally producing) another major historical series, on the American West. He is also planning a series of 60- and 90-minute biographies of American historical figures, such as Thomas Jefferson and Lewis and Clark...
LIKE FISH IN A BARREL, CONGRESS HAS ALWAYS BEEN TOO good a target to miss. From the very beginning, the tendency of the nation's lawmakers to posture or steal or make damn fools of themselves has been an inspiration to reformers and parodists alike. In 1794 Thomas Jefferson, who was easily shocked by the depths to which other politicians could sink, denounced the "shameless corruption" he had witnessed in the First and Second Congresses. A century later, Mark Twain, who was not so easily shocked, insisted there was no such thing as a "distinctively native American criminal class, except...