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...belief that when it was being considered, Jefferson was wary of the idea of a strong central government. Initially, he was critical of the proposed Constitution because it contained no guarantees of civil rights. No doubt Jefferson's criticism influenced the turnabout on this issue of fellow Virginian James Madison, who was a principal drafter of the Constitution and who later proposed the Bill of Rights. ROGER W. SEILER South Nyack, New York...
DIED. DOUG MCCLURE, 59; former broncobuster and star of TV westerns such as The Virginian and The Overland Trail; of lung cancer; in Sherman Oaks, California...
...However, Virginian Jordanna M. Brodsky '98 is voting for Robb mainly to keep North out of office...
...preparing the special report, McGeary called on a variety of talents at the magazine, including those of our nine-person Moscow staff. Correspondent James Carney, a native Virginian and Russian studies major at Yale, focused on two of his specialties: the nascent Baltic nations and Russia's hard-line conservatives. Reporter Ann Simmons, a British subject with a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, spent time with a working-class family to profile its desperate struggle to afford life's necessities...
...preferred not to remember. Today it might be called a character issue that Lincoln told racist and obscene stories to make a point among his none too delicate peers. One man who served with Lincoln in Congress reminded him, in a letter, of Lincoln's "story of the old Virginian stropping his razor on a certain member of a young Negro's body...