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There are certain to be more new rules. For the Governors' winter meeting in Washington a few weeks ago, Huckabee, who opened the conference by leading some of his fellow Governors and their staffs on a 5K run, invited a former fat kid who is also a quadruple-bypass patient to speak. Bill Clinton related to the problem of weight in typical feel-your-pain fashion. The two Arkansas pols, longtime adversaries, have joined together to work toward halting the rise in childhood obesity by 2010 and reversing it by 2015. "Look at Huckabee," Clinton told the Governors...
...Engineers charged with making short-term repairs to the levee system by the start of storm season. To date, the Corps has signed nearly $400 million in repair contracts. All around town its crews can be seen working to restore levees, fix flood walls and install interim floodgates and bypass pumps. But for months the mantra around New Orleans has been that in the longer term, the city must have more--namely storm protection sufficient to resist a Category 5 storm. (Katrina was at most a Category 4 when it hit land.) "We have got to feel confident the city...
...been out for nearly a month—and only McCafferty and Hafner were able to return for this homestand and the important ECAC tournament implications it held for Harvard. And a weekend off is not just nice for the injured—it also lets the Crimson bypass a best-of-three opening round in which anything can happen. Despite its high finish, Harvard has lost this season to Yale and Quinnipiac, two of the teams in the league’s bottom quartet. Furthermore, once four teams are eliminated this weekend, the seeds will all be reshuffled?...
...first-semester college grades.The study, which found no significant correlation between AP scores and grades, adds to the ongoing debate among educators over the weight placed on AP exam scores.Many educators question whether a score of three or above on an AP test should allow a student to bypass introductory level courses, as is the policy at many colleges. At Harvard, by contrast, “AP Biology does not substitute for any concentration requirement in biology”—including the requirement that concentrators must take an introductory course, according to the undergraduate student handbook. Freshmen...
...According to the prosecutor, a cooperating witness had delivered 15 kilograms of cocaine and $15,000 to Nguyen's home last Thursday, and the two air marshals "had agreed to use their official positions as air marshals to bypass security at Bush Intercontinental Airport and smuggle the cocaine aboard a flight bound for Las Vegas." First assistant US Attorney Don DeGabrielle said, "We expect and demand that our law enforcement officials will themselves abide by the laws that they are sworn to uphold. The abuse of the badge will not be tolerated." The two men are not yet required...