Word: jefferson
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Only rarely, when the pardoned is famous enough, have ethical issues been raised. But complaints go back at least to George Washington's pardon of two leaders of the Whisky Rebellion, and have surfaced during campaigns to pardon Eugene Debs, Tokyo Rose, Jefferson Davis and Samuel Mudd, the physician jailed for setting the broken leg of Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth...
Alan Brickman '76, who runs the city-sponsored Cambridge School Volunteers program, goes beyond Rindge to emphasize the scope and variety of the whole city. "Cambridge ranges from prominent families to non-English speaking families--Cambridge is Harvard Square, but it is also [housing projects] Jefferson Park and Rindge Towers," Brickman says. "The trick is to find the appropriate place for the appropriate volunteer...
...Robertson is rarely mentioned, Kemp not at all. Teeter has learned that day about Dole's media plans. "He's buying the living hell out of North Carolina. He committed for $334,000 in the last two days alone." Teeter reports on their own buys: "We bought Columbia-Jefferson City today and upped our buy a little bit in St. Louis. We're only going comparative in South Carolina so far." (In their parlance, Dole's ads are negative; Bush's are "comparative...
John Adams' victory over Thomas Jefferson in the presidential election of 1796 might not have been due to Adams' strident handbills, but it gave birth to a tradition in American politics that still flourishes: accentuating the negative. The rule is: when in doubt, attack; when attacked, counterattack. History will show that in New Hampshire last week a Vice President's hard- hitting, negative television ads in response to an insurgent Senator's first strike pushed the Vice President to victory. On the Democratic side, two rivals strafed each other over the airwaves and basically reached a draw...
...article published February 22, The Crimson incorrectly quoted Kenneth A. Gerber '89 as saying that most of the proceeds from the Dance Marathon would go to the Currier House-affiliated Jefferson Park project. The proceeds were split evenly among five student public service organizations, including the Jefferson Park program...