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...soon as the vote was completed, the Congress formed itself into a committee of the whole to consider Jefferson's draft Declaration. They were not as light in their editing as Franklin had been. Large sections were eviscerated, most notably the one that criticized the King for perpetuating the slave trade. Congress also, to its credit, cut by more than half the draft's final five paragraphs, in which Jefferson had begun to ramble in a way that detracted from the document's power. Jefferson was distraught. "I was sitting by Dr. Franklin," he recalled, "who perceived that...
...chat rooms have been abuzz with demands for reform and even abolition of the system. Sun's status as a college-educated up-and-comer rather than an out-of-work farmhand has fueled widespread outrage. "You were imprisoned because you would not be a pet animal or a slave," read one of many eulogies to Sun posted on the Internet. Lending force to this outcry is the fact that China's recent experiences with SARS have aroused a strong sense of public concern about good governance. Two groups of Beijing-based legal scholars have sent petitions to China...
...escape from a man he believed to be a member of the Russian mob. He then boarded a train to Mongolia, followed by a 35-hour bus ride through the Gobi desert to Beijing. In this bus, which Kieran describes as the “modern equivalent of a slave galley,” the passengers lay in four-level bunks. They slept with their hands shielding their faces to keep their noses from slamming against the higher bunk when the bus hit a bump. From Beijing, Kieran had hoped to take a boat to Japan, but a monsoon foiled...
...most important thing in decorating is to make sure you’re expressing your own identity,” Silverman says. “There is no right or wrong answer in design. It’s important not to be a slave to the styles that are out there.” Because most first apartments are generally on the small side, she recommends a “limit and edit” strategy in deciding what to bring from college to a new home. “This is a good time to purge...
...Bondwoman’s Narrative,” in an auction catalogue in the summer of 2001 and purchased it for $9,775. Appraised recently, the document was found to be worth $350,000. The mid-nineteenth century account is believed to have been written by an escaped slave, Hannah Crafts...