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...House of Representatives passed by the slimmest margins the most sweeping progressive legislation since the Johnson Administration. The Affordable Health Care For America Act was passed by a meager five votes, the ayes coming in at 220 and the nays coming in at 215. Passage was made possible by an eleventh hour amendment proposed by Democratic Representative Bart Stupak of Michigan that forbids health insurance companies from covering abortions for any individual whose insurance is subsidized by taxpayer dollars. We lament that such a reactionary amendment was required for the passage of this landmark bill, but we also recognize...
Schwartz added that one of the reasons why Kennedy, the third longest-serving senator in American history, succeeded in bringing about reform was that he drew heavily on his Harvard connections and often invited experts from the University to act as his advisors...
...other two panelists were Ellen Guiney and Danica Petroshius, who both worked closely with the senator on Goals 2000, a project focusing on standards-based education reform, and the No Child Left Behind Act, respectively...
...relished the moment when, curled up in a chair on the first floor reading room, engrossed in George Eliot, I slowly removed my glasses with a nonchalant sigh and rubbed by tired eyes, before carefully placing the glasses back on my head and returning to my book. That act wasn’t just for my own twisted self-satisfaction; it was a means of communicating to all the other four-eyed intellectuals in the library that I was one of them. It was a way of saying, “I know the trials of the intellectual...
...even if you’re one of the greatest presidents in US history, you can still get the shaft. HAHAHA,” that I hear tour guides yelling every single day than I would be by my class being moved so Justin Timberlake can act like a nerd in front of Emerson...