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Then there's the Jefferson of the Notes on the State of Virginia, who in the time-honored fashion--"I'm no racist but ..."--proclaimed whites' superior beauty and ventured his "suspicion" that although racial intermixture improved them, blacks were intellectually inferior to whites. Although he qualified his disparaging remarks because he hadn't observed blacks in their natural state of freedom in Africa, Jefferson's presentation leaves no doubt that he, like a typical white person of the 18th century, believed in white supremacy. Consider Abigail Adams, who upon seeing Othello expressed her "disgust and horror" at the thought...
...show that the money he had paid to Reynolds' husband James had been for the favor of her company and not for illicit speculation in Treasury securities, as the Jeffersonians had alleged. Forever after, the Jeffersonians tagged Hamilton as "the amorous Treasury Secretary" and mocked his pretensions to superior morality...
...nervous,” Donato said, letting down his guard just long enough to crack a smile. “I think there’s one thing that I wanted to say and that was, very simply, that I think that Harvard hockey is the greatest combination of superior academics and competitive athletics in all of college sports. And that is a tradition that I embrace and hope to carry...
Soon after his arrest, Middlesex District Court refused to grant Pring-Wilson bail because his knowledge of foreign languages meant he could pose a flight risk. On May 14, 2003 a Superior Court judge released Pring-Wilson from jail on $400,000 bail...
...We’ve dealt with the dean’s office so much. But even Summers has told me, ‘[HahvahdParties.com] is an OK idea,’” Corker says, assuming a superior, Summers-esque voice for the last...