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Annual student essay contest endowed by Philip L. Carret aimed at having Elon University students reflect on the ideals and principles embodied in Thomas Jefferson's life and career. Top three prize-winning student essays from the competition based on the following topic: Britain and France, for Thomas Jefferson at least, posed philosophical as well as political challenges. In his ongoing attempts to define what it meant to be "American" after he had helped the thirteen colonies to declare independence, Jefferson often looked back across the Atlantic at European ideas and ideals about national identity. How did his intellectual and personal encounters with European societies shape Jefferson's conceptions of American identity and the development of new national ideas and institutions?

Annual student essay contest endowed by Philip L. Carret aimed at having Elon University students reflect on the ideals and principles embodied in Thomas Jefferson's life and career. Top three prize-winning student essays from the competition based on the following topic: From the beginning of the American experiment, Thomas Jefferson insisted upon the freedom of the press, confiding in 1786 to John Jay that "Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press." This same advocate of an unfettered press later took an apparently contradictory view of American newspapers. He went so far as to label them "chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smokes" and, in 1804, even suggested that state governments might claim an exclusive "right to controul the freedom of the press." What, exactly, did Jefferson mean by "the press"? And what role did he believe that the press should serve in a free and republican nation? What role did it play in Jefferson's own political experience?

Analyzes the 2003 outlook for unemployment & job rate growth in Australia put forth by the government, the OECD, & the IMF. The article evaluates the prospects for reducing unemployment & enacting reform by economic policymakers. L. Collins

Reviews political & economic news from Australia & updates the current position of leading political parties at the beginning of the second year of the Howard-Costello government's third term. Speculations regarding Prime Minister John Howard's tenure are explored, along with the negative impact of the recent drought on the Australian economy that has been extremely healthy for the last seven years. It is noted that several private sector forecasters have predicted that the global economy's continuing recession will cause a slowdown in the Australian economy & there is some evidence that both job growth & business confidence are decreasing. The slowing pace of growth is expected to worsen if the drought continues into the next growing season & if efforts of the Bush administration fail to stimulate recovery of the US economy. Possible political consequences of a weakened economy are discussed. J. Lindroth

This article addresses whether Australia's 2003-2004 national budget will indicate a fiscal deficit. An overview of Australia's late-20th-century fiscal difficulties is presented, emphasizing the factors responsible for fluctuations in the nation's foreign currency rating. An analysis of various economic measures revealed that Australia's 2002-2003 national budget will most likely produce a deficit for the second consecutive year. After reviewing the current administration's attitudes toward budget deficits, multiple reasons for anticipating that Australia's 2003-2004 national budget will produce a fiscal deficit are offered, eg, Australian Treasurer Peter Costello's particular understanding of the economic cycle. The implications of the current Australian government's economic policy for future macroeconomic decision making & the status of financial markets are also pondered. J. W. Parker