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Joining Reardon on the search committee is Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman '67, Professor John E. Dowling '57, Director of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67, former University Provost Jerry R. Green, Professor Barbara Gross, Associate Dean of the Faculty Nancy L. Maull, and Joseph O'Donnell...
Despite Paige's advocacy of controversial conservative education policies--like the use of tax money for vouchers to send students to private schools--lawmakers in both parties are welcoming him. Senator Barbara Mikulski, a liberal Maryland Democrat, described herself as "really impressed" by Paige's legacy in Houston; Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, called Paige's leadership "visionary...
...must have been something about the tightly knit Wasp community of Midland, Texas, some unique social condition that encouraged the cultivation of nicknames, because everyone had one. From his father George ("Poppy") Bush, the war hero with one of those curiously effeminate preppie nicknames (like "Bunny" and "Pinkie"), to Barbara ("Bar") Bush (no one dared stray farther from the source name), to brother John Ellis ("Jeb") Bush's acronym of a name, to family friends "Spider" and "Wemus" and countless others, in Bushworld everyone had to have a nickname, and if you didn't, they'd give...
...organization be blamed if its incendiary literature and suggestive website encourage a member to commit a crime? Cambridge residents Barbara and Robert Curley answer yes. Their 10-year-old son Jeffrey was murdered in 1997 by two pedophiles who befriended the boy in hopes of having sex with him. After being lured into the men's car with the promise of a new bike, Jeffrey refused to comply with their requests for sex. Charles Jaynes and accomplice Salvatore Sicari, Curley's neighbors, then killed him and sexually abused his dead body. After having been convicted in 1998, the murderers...
...Despite Paige's advocacy of controversial conservative education policies--like the use of tax money for vouchers to send students to private schools--lawmakers in both parties are welcoming him. Senator Barbara Mikulski, a liberal Maryland Democrat, described herself as "really impressed" by Paige's legacy in Houston; Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, called Paige's leadership "visionary...