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...Oren carefully connects America’s recent history to its early roots. President Bush’s pro-force policies can be traced back to Thomas Jefferson, who in 1790 recommended that the United States go to war with the Barbary pirates, and Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, who dispatched Marines to protect Americans living in Beirut, which was war-torn even at the turn of the 20th century. Bush’s support of American businesses in the region even calls to mind the value Andrew Jackson placed on Middle Eastern trade...
...observing ego, or the limbic region, which controls violence, reflection and defensive behavior, can shut down internal governors and trigger all manner of unregulated behavior. "Somebody who had damage to both regions would be a bad player for sure," says forensic psychiatrist Neil Kaye, a faculty member at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia...
Media has always keenly quoted Thomas Jefferson: “If I had to make a choice, to choose the government without the press or to have the press but without the government, I will select the latter without hesitation...
Democratization is an enlightened ideal and the West’s reality, but it is only beneficial if individuals transcend apathy and get involved. Updating Jefferson to better fit our times, it is not about choosing between media and government, but about using democratized media to appropriately influence government...
...today's market, it will always be tempting to cash out. In March, just as Philadelphia was congratulating itself for managing to keep The Gross Clinic at home, Jefferson University dropped the other shoe. It abruptly announced it would also be selling its two remaining Eakinses, both of them portraits of 19th century physicians who were once on the school's faculty. The weary and tapped-out locals have made no significant move to save those...