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...slender set, featuring such fare as vegetarian pita-bread sandwiches, diet cheeseburgers, frozen yogurt and light beer. The chain grew from one Atlanta outlet in 1981 to about 100 restaurants in 19 states last year. But now D'Lites may be down to its final few bites. Company President Jefferson McMahon, a former Arby's executive who was hired only last November to tighten up D'Lites' management, abruptly quit the top job last week. The chain acknowledged that it may soon have to seek bankruptcy protection unless it can arrange an infusion of new capital. D'Lites lost...
That probably means I also lost my Club West membership. No more squash, tennis or swimming. I also lose a claim to all the tradition that makes the West western. Locke, Jefferson, Aristotle--I'll never again be able to say we share the same ideology...
Many Americans back then gloried in the Jeffersonian eloquence, then turned away from the tasks it prescribed for them. Too many Americans still do that, says Malone, who is 94, and spent 50 years compiling his six volumes on Jefferson, 5 1/2 of which follow the events that came after the moment of creation in July 1776. Common sense about the things that still plague mankind flowed from Jefferson's extraordinary pen for half a century after that date in papers, letters and laws...
Scholars know about Jefferson's insistence that "the earth belongs to the living, not to the dead," and how he wanted that principle applied to eliminating national debts, particularly war debts. But few practitioners of today's politics have read those admonitions. Jefferson contended that one generation, which he meticulously calculated from the rough data available to run about 19 years, should not unreasonably burden its successors. He believed sufficient taxes should be levied to clear the books in that 19-year stretch so that a new generation could face its own problems unencumbered. That pay- as-you-go principle...
...Jefferson's marvelous mind knew few limits. Laws of a nation and even constitutions should undergo generational revisions, he suggested. "No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law," he wrote. He felt, like few other men of his age, the inexorable current of humankind in which the only constant was change. But, of course, he was too much the dreamer. His friend James Madison brought him down to earth, pointing out that generations were not mere tidy mathematical certainties and that debts, like those incurred for the American Revolution, could benefit those who were to come...