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...opponent of a permanent standing military doubled the size of the country in one stroke by making the Louisiana Purchase and went to war against Muslim pirates with a brand-new fighting force: the U.S. Marines. "He had outsized talents of statesmanship and outsized talents for self-indulgence," says Roger Wilkins, author of Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. "I don't begrudge Jefferson his iconic status, because he was, in fact, a great, if flawed human being...
...helicopter gunships and planes have strafed and bombed Darfurian towns before and after the Janjaweed carried out their massacres. The U.N. and U.S. do not call the pogroms genocide--in part because doing so could oblige the international community to intervene to save the Darfurians. But two weeks ago, Roger Winter, assistant administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), told a Senate hearing that the Janjaweed's murders and rapes "raise questions about the [Darfurian] community's long-term ability to survive and re-establish itself...
...Blunt Man of the Book When Roger Straus, the flamboyant co-founder and editor in chief of publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux, died in May at age 87, the literary world lost one of its most colorful characters [MILESTONES, June 7]. TIME profiled Straus in 1988, when his company was reaping prizes and profits...
There are places Bill Clinton remembers in My Life—just not too well, according to Kennedy School of Government professor and Dunster House Master Roger B. Porter, who alleges that the former president fabricated a damning conversation between the two of them in his newly published memoir...
Still, to get an idea of which stocks might fare best under Kerry, it's useful to look at those that did well under Bill Clinton. Kerry's economic team is packed with onetime Clinton advisers, including former Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, and Kerry has made clear his affection for Clinton-era policy...