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Having graduated from both Columbia and Harvard Law School, Obama sat up in his chair and leaned forward, his interest piqued, when suddenly a revelation flashed across the scene: Brown 34, Penn...
...minimize the need for review year to year. It will also bring New Hampshire's education framework much closer to what occurs in many high-performing European and Asian nations. "It's about defining what lessons students should master and then teaching to those points," says Marc Tucker, co-chair of the commission and president of the National Center for Education and the Economy in Washington. "Kids at every level will be taking tough courses and working hard...
...role in the Homeland Security and Oversight Committee. "Reid will be under pressure to strip Lieberman's chairmanship from him," says Stephen Wayne, a political-science professor at Georgetown University. "If he votes to organize with the Dems, they will allow him to choose a committee assignment, but not chair...
...patience for “scholarly type of smarts.” Instead, he pursued cosmopolitan interests, including movies, arts, and popular culture. Esherick and Crichton would always have dinner together in Lowell House before Crichton would run off to The Crimson to write movie reviews.Former Crimson editorial chair Robert W. Gordon ’63 said Crichton possessed a “bit of knowledge about everything,” displaying his versatility by writing for both editorial and news.“He was a master of all the disciplines,” added Gordon, now a professor...
...Short of ideas and running low on cash, Republicans are in need of new leaders. South Carolina party chair Katon Dawson, a probable candidate for the national chairmanship, will be hosting a meeting of state leaders in Myrtle Beach later this month. Republican governors, a group that includes such potential 2012 presidential candidates as Sanford, Utah's Jon Huntsman Jr. and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, plan to meet in Florida. Social conservatives, a faction that Mike Huckabee is positioning himself to lead, were scheduled to caucus in Virginia. No one is quite sure yet whether Palin will become the darling...