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...individuals and the private sector should work in collaboration to make investing in 529 college savings plans or variants of the plan a priority. Students should be encouraged to get good grades, involve themselves in activities, and be model citizens to garner the endorsement of nonprofit organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. By 2016, the Gates Foundation will have sent 27,000 low-income high school graduates to colleges and universities across the country...
...Leaders in our union wanted to say something important about the power of acting in a constructive manner and about our partnership with the University,” said HUCTW Director Bill Jaeger...
...before the historic health care reform vote, Barack Obama made his final argument in favor of the bill to the Democratic members of Congress. "I am not bound to win," he began, quoting Abraham Lincoln, "but I am bound to be true." The next 45 minutes provided a rare, true, almost private glimpse of American politics. Some said they had never seen the President so passionate - although Obama's version of passion is much calmer than most. He did many of the things expected in a pep talk. He made the substantive case for the bill. He jabbed the hyperbolic...
...pictures of President Obama signing the health care bill...
...single Republican voted for it. Indeed, the Republicans put on a scalding, cynical performance all year, mischaracterizing the bill as "socialism" and a "government takeover" of health care, inventing nonexistent provisions like "death panels" to scare the public. Now that it has passed, Republicans will have to deal with the reality that the bill did not represent "Armageddon," as their overwrought House leader, John Boehner, claimed - that, in fact, it won't have much short-term impact at all and that in the long term, the impact is more likely to be benign than tragic...