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...Ask anybody to name the six starting offensive linemen on the Harvard football team and chances are you’d probably get blank stares even from the Crimson faithful. While senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti and junior wide receiver Matt Luft may be the big men on campus, it’s really junior left tackle James Williams, senior left guard Tom Rodger, junior center Alex Spisak, senior right guard Zach Copple, senior right tackle Ryan Pilconis, and senior tight end Andy Miller who are the true unsung heroes for the Crimson. “They’re simply...
...students’ interests. “Having my students attend pediatrics-related conferences in Boston can be an educational experience,” she said. One of her students interviewed yesterday said that he had the highest regard for Palfrey, saying that “you can basically ask her anything.” “She’s like an open book, full of knowledge on childhood and health care,” Mihir J. Chaudhary ’12 said. “She’s pretty much awesome...
...News of the decision to stop funding Ed in '08 comes four days after the leaders of the campaign, along with New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein and the Rev. Al Sharpton, sent a letter to vice-presidential debate moderator Gwen Ifill urging her to ask more questions about education. The Sept. 29 letter noted that in this election cycle, just 20 of the 653 questions asked at 30 presidential debates have dealt with education - about 3%. "In the last Democratic debate in Cleveland, for instance, Senators Obama and Clinton spent more than 15 minutes discussing health care, [while...
...Even after receiving this impassioned plea, Ifill did not ask any direct questions about schools during Thursday's vice-presidential debate. However, when she asked about budget priorities, Joe Biden vowed the Democratic ticket would not scale back its $18 billion education-spending plan, despite the $700 billion federal economic bailout Congress was working feverishly to pass. "We won't slow up on education because that's the engine that's going to give us the economic growth and competitiveness we need," Biden said. Sarah Palin, for her part, called for state standards to be raised as well as funding...
With America's financial cathedrals crumbling around him, the billionaire mayor of its biggest city made a power play. Citing a desire to shepherd the country's economic hub through a period of crisis, Michael Bloomberg announced on Oct. 2 that he would ask the New York City Council to amend a 15-year-old law restricting Big Apple mayors to two terms in office. "We have planned for a slowdown in New York, but we may well be on the verge of a meltdown," he said by way of explanation. (See TIME's cover story on Michael Bloomberg here...