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...What is to be the issue of republicanism there may now be doubted. Some here consider this last revolution as an additional proof of the impracticability of republican government. But I will never believe that man is incapable of self-government; that he has no resources but in a master, who is but a man like himself, and generally a worse man, inasmuch as power tends to deprave him. On the other hand I view this last revolution as an additional lesson against a standing army without which, it is evident Buonaparte could not have acomplished it, nor could...
Because we celebrate Jefferson for his sonorous words in the Declaration of Independence--Hamilton never matched Jefferson's gift for writing ringing passages that were at once poetic and inspirational--we sometimes overlook Jefferson's consummate skills as a practicing politician. A master of subtle, artful indirection, he was able to marshal his forces without divulging his generalship. After Hamilton persuaded President Washington to create the Bank of the United States, the country's first central bank, Jefferson was aghast at what he construed as a breach of the Constitution and a perilous expansion of federal power. Along with Madison...
WHERE HIS HEART WAS How Monticello mirrored its master...
...forever--you're not supposed to gain weight, start smoking or live off your Visa card ever again. Summer goals last only as long as it takes to meet them and then set the next one--run a 6-min. mile, reread all of Jane Austen by Labor Day, master a celestial angel-food cake...
...former America Online software engineer, and SEAN DUNAWAY, 21, e-mail marketer; with conspiracy, for allegedly stealing and selling the entire list of 92 million AOL user names for purposes of spam; in New York City. Prosecutors say Smathers used another employee's identification code to access the master list of subscriber e-mails and sold it for at least $100,000 to Dunaway, who is accused of using it to promote his Internet gambling site...