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...Trump, for the moment, should not be judged a greater threat than Jefferson Davis or Robert E Lee, who caused nearly 700,000 deaths in order to perpetuate slavery (Opinion, August 24)....
...Take a break from the news Thomas H Lee, the financier who led some of the private equity industry’s most successful deals during the 1980s and 1990s, has died at the age of 78....
...Jefferson Noel, 27, said he gained his first exposure to crypto in January 2019 when he accidentally invested $5 in bitcoin while using Cash App, a payment service....
...John Lee, the city’s new chief executive, who oversaw a crackdown against political protesters, said 140,000 people had left in the past two years. 4....
...The dates have been set for a re-run in the contentious battle for a union at the facility in Bessemer, a southwestern suburb of Birmingham in the state’s most populous county of Jefferson....
...In December, Amazon was granted a request by Jefferson County officials to change the timing on the lights to allow cars to leave more quickly, a move the company said was unrelated to the union effort and...
...Last week Virginia’s governor pledged to remove a statue of the Confederate war leader Robert E Lee from the state capital....
...Take Barbra Streisand’s guest list of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, Edward Hopper, Gustav Klimt and Fanny Brice....
...No more Fort Braggs, or Lee Highways or statues of southern generals. They fought for a cause that was unremittingly evil and should not be honoured....
...Like Chief Justice Taney’s view of slaves in 1857, Lee was correct....
...Jefferson would have approved. So should we....
...Everything will be mended with Elmer’s glue.” In London we only ever had one house guest. A mouse. And we murdered him....
...Jenny Lee is a box of chocolates Follow @FTProperty on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first. Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos...
...Jenny Lee is the court jester...
...Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson – who’s next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!”...
...President Donald Trump rhetorically asked whether statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson should also be knocked down because they were both slave owners in their day....
...“Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson — who’s next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!” Mr Trump tweeted....
...A New York Times report in 1890 on the unveiling of a statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee in Richmond, Virginia declared that just as Lee’s memory belonged to “the American people”, so the monument...
...“This week it’s Robert E Lee,” he said. “I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?”...
...Washington and Lee, another college, takes its name from two generals: George Washington and Robert E Lee, who led the confederates in the civil war....
...“The strength of the signal from Chair Yellen was not sufficient to upset ongoing resilience in risk appetite,” said Todd Elmer, strategist at CitiFX....
...His other profession adds to his presidential stature, as it did with Jefferson....
...Others, such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, were guiltier. Should they be judged solely on that? Winston Churchill was an unabashed imperialist....
...From Mr Nick Jefferson....
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