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...most accomplished man (and in some ways the most fascinating one) who ever occupied the White House--naturalist, lawyer, educator, musician, architect, geographer, inventor, scientist, agriculturalist, philologist and more. His only presidential rival in versatility of intellect was Theodore Roosevelt. Though Jefferson wrote only one book, Notes on the State of Virginia, he was a magnificent writer and tireless correspondent. He left behind an astonishing 18,000 letters, including his memorable correspondence with John Adams. (Adams and Jefferson died on the same day, July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence...
...centuries before. "As a result of Hitler," argued Elie Wiesel in TIME last year, "man is defined by what makes him inhuman." And while the Reich lasted 12 years rather than 1,000, its spores still survive and multiply. "The essence of Hitlerism--racism, ethnic hatred, extreme nationalism, state-organized murder--is still alive, still causing millions of deaths," wrote U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke when he reluctantly nominated Hitler as the century's dominant character. "Freedom is the century's most powerful idea, but the struggle is far from over...
...theologians and historians who have made this point. Most explicit are those who have called him God's punishment of European Jews for their secularization, then gone on to argue that it was mainly because of Hitler and the Holocaust that the biblical prophecy was fulfilled and the state of Israel born--only Western guilt on so massive a scale could have cleared the way to the Promised Land...
...Chrysler Building, New York City (1,046 ft.), was quickly surpassed by the Empire State Building--but only in height. Its Art Deco beauty celebrated a Golden Age of American capitalism...
...president and ceo of the PQ Corp., a major specialty-chemical company, and serves on a prestigious Philadelphia business council; Dawn, 45, is an activist for disabled-children?s causes and for three years has been a member of the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council, an advisory group to the state welfare department. News stories noted that the couple drove away from the police station, where they were charged, in separate BMWs...