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Hinojosa said he drew from his own upbringing when emphasizing how important it is for the University to admit students from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds...
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...billionaire like Silvio Berlusconi is used to wanting, and getting, it all. Even when he has to admit defeat, Berlusconi usually comes away better off than most. So it shouldn't be that surprising that while his days as Italian Prime Minister are now almost certainly numbered, the charismatic media mogul may well emerge from the election, ostensibly won by center left leader Romano Prodi, as what one center-left source called "winning loser." Having made up much ground in the polls in the final weeks, Berlusconi has reaffirmed his own party, Forza Italia, as the single largest political force...
...figures for a power figure to buy a gossipist's favor? That would be a new wrinkle that, if made public, would be hard to Botox. Stern, who has not seen the tape, avers that the incriminating quotes are "snippets taken out of context." He does admit to meeting with Burkle twice and to asking for money. ("Um, $100,000 to get going and month to month, $10,000.") But he denies it was extortion. "The money that was talked about was as an investment in my clothing company," Stern told TIME, "and as a fee for consulting...
Starting a year ago, the people of Shelbyville began to admit the scope of their problem by asking themselves the same simple questions about who was graduating. It helped that superintendent Adams was new to his job and that the high school's principal was too. They had a clean slate and little incentive to make excuses for the old way of doing things...