Word: backings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Drehle picked the right guy to top your 10 Best College Presidents list [Nov. 23]. As you disclose, Gee took a pay cut to return to Ohio State University, but not reported is that he earned more than $220,000 in bonuses this year--all of which he gave back for student scholarships. Gee leads academics by inspiration. Buckeyes and the nation can now cheer for an OSU academic team that impacts the world with innovation...
...your story on new bus lines [Nov. 23]: The amazing, low-cost fares offered by MegaBus and others come with a trade-off, terrible customer service. As a thrifty college student, I was thrilled when MegaBus started a route from Minneapolis back home to Milwaukee. The bus was regularly late. MegaBus lost me as a customer when it switched my departure time one evening without notifying me, and I waited until 1 a.m. for a bus that never showed up. When I tried to rectify the situation, I got nowhere. It's not worth the hassle...
...Postcard: Minneapolis," about kids learning Mandarin, brought back memories of high school, when we built bomb shelters to survive a Soviet nuclear attack and gasped at communist atrocities in China. With the U.S. over its head in debt, knowing Mandarin might be a good idea. What a difference a half-century makes...
...Back on Capitol Hill, Obey is concerned that increased spending for Afghanistan could doom Obama's efforts to improve the U.S. economy. He says the domestic initiatives of both Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson stalled because of the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Says Obey: "We don't want that to happen again...
...Sudanese oil. For a government keen on keeping economics and politics separate, Beijing is finding that the two have a nasty habit of intertwining. China is also learning that it can't keep a lid on political scandals overseas as easily as it can clamp down on information back home. In P.N.G., for instance, the local press has widely covered a government investigation into claims that corrupt local officials allowed Chinese immigrants to buy passports. In May Prime Minister Somare went so far as to implicate the immigration department, commenting, "We know some are saying, 'You give...