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...opponents considered corrupt: the 1824 election had been thrown to the House of Representatives, which picked him. The new President, Andrew Jackson, was his era's version of change. Unlike his predecessors, he was not from the founding generation, not related to a founder, not a member of the Virginia dynasty. He embodied the Western future of the country, just as Obama does our multiracial future. An unprecedented number of Americans trekked to see him take the oath of office. His Inaugural was a massive party at the White House, one that got so out of hand that Jackson...
...1950s and '60s, God was a man named Alexander Scourby. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., of Greek immigrant parents and attended college in West Virginia, but he spoke in a "deep and resonant voice" (as Wikipedia puts it) and - here is the key point - with more than a touch of a British accent. Long after Britain had exhausted its resources in World War II and lost its empire, a British accent conveyed authority, dignity, power...
...Born February 4, 1947, in Kittery, Maine, he's a 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy along with fellow admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Virginia Democratic Senator Jim Webb...
APPOINTED Most recently a top contender for the No. 2 spot under Barack Obama, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, 50, was named the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Jan. 4. Kaine's term as governor expires at the end of the year...
...Former University President Lawrence H. Summers once quoted Banaji on unconscious prejudice against women in science, recommending people to visit the Web site for the Implicit Association Test, which is maintained by Banaji and her former student Brian A. Nosek, now a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. Just months before, Summers had made his now-infamous comments that attributed the dearth of women in top science careers to “issues of intrinsic aptitude...