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...addition to its distance stars, the Crimson drew on a collective effort from the relay teams to bolster its score. Junior Jordan Diekema, rookie Owen Wurzbacher, sophomore Nicholas Tan, and junior Eric Taylor sprinted to a second-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay—the first event of the meet—while Brunnick, McClean, and freshmen classmates Brendan McIntee and Greg Pelton posted a 3:04.38 to take third in the 400-yard freestyle relay...
...being labeled as the party of no; House Republican Conference chairman Mike Pence claimed last Friday that Obama's visit to talk to the GOP caucus had validated their contention that they have legitimate policy ideas of their own. But there is no doubt that the obstructionist strategy helped bolster the beleaguered fiscal-conservative arm of the Republican Party. After eight years of growing the government under the Bush Administration, creating new entitlements and funding bridges to nowhere, their reputation was in shreds. "It was a very dangerous strategy because, if the stimulus worked, the Republicans would have been very...
Students said they saw the address as an effort to bolster the Democratic Party’s momentum, which took a hit after Republican Scott P. Brown won a historically Democratic seat in the Mass. senatorial election last week. Brown will be the 41st Republican Senator, giving his party filibuster power that could derail the Democrats’ plans for health care reform...
...White House says it understands that the solution to the war in Afghanistan is not purely military. Officials have declared a concomitant "civilian surge" of experts to bolster the embattled country's bureaucracy and economy along with the greater number of troops. But if the U.S. is truly committed to long-term security and stability in Afghanistan, it should be investing in the one pivotal sector that has received scant attention from the international community: education...
Meanwhile, Bobb is drafting broad academic reforms to bolster school-administrator, teacher and student performance. He is establishing systemwide standards for what classes a student needs to have passed to be promoted to the next grade. He has shuffled dozens of principals, often from relatively high-performing schools to less than stellar ones, and he may extend the school day. In the next 18 months, he wants significant gains in the percentage of fourth- and eighth-graders who perform at grade level in math and reading. By 2015, he wants 90% of all students to complete at least one Advanced...