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...Yankee fans were discovered after extensive background checks of the HUPD staff,” Catalano said...
...Garrison Nelson, an expert on the educational background of American presidents, balks at the merest suggestion that Yale’s curriculum was responsible for the glut of candidates this year...
Whenever there's a billion dollars to hand out to special interests, influential members of Congress--Democrats and Republicans--are always lurking in the background. After the IRS decided in June to take a closer look at the coal that is being called synthetic fuel, the synfuels industry turned to its old friends on Capitol Hill. In a rare public display of congressional meddling in a tax investigation, industry supporters persuaded a House Appropriations subcommittee to introduce a bill to call off the industrywide audit. It failed to pass in an 8-to-8 vote. Since then, the campaign...
Having attended a public school himself, the professor said he sought to ensure that low-income Cambridge students could receive a state-funded education that would prepare them for what he deemed the challenges of the 21st century. Combating these challenges requires a strong background in math, science and technology, he said...
...exhibits provide little general background for the lay viewer. Even though the descriptions of each project are clear and articulate, they assume a basic knowledge of these projects’ historical and architectural context...