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...dean for only three years before stepping down to return to academia. “We’re really at an interesting point in our history. There are a lot of exciting opportunities that await us,” said McCartney, also holds the Lesser chair in early childhood development. “I have enjoyed the work. I plan to stay for a long time.” McCartney spent much of this year heading an extensive academic planning process focused on brainstorming ways to reorganize some doctoral and masters programs. Among the proposals is the institution...
...definitely her strong suit," says ABC Entertainment chief Stephen McPherson, "and characters are what drive great television." As for race, the show never approaches it head on, except sometimes to flip expectations on their head. Three of the top doctors are black, and the character who had the toughest childhood is white...
...inspector general and the Justice Department are closely scrutinizing the relationship between Wilkes and outgoing executive director Kyle ?Dusty? Foggo, a childhood friend, as the wider Cunningham investigation continues. Cunningham was sentenced to more than eight years in prison in March. A California newspaper, the North County Times, reported this week that a Defense Department investigator has complained that Cunningham, who is serving a more than eight-year sentence, is not fully cooperating in the investigation. A Cunningham attorney declined comment...
...their portion sizes will be capped. Many individual school districts and states have already taken steps to reduce the presence of soft drinks in schools, but this joint decision has a vastly larger reach. Although removing soft drinks from schools does not, by itself, fully address concerns about childhood obesity in the U.S., it is an important step towards encouraging healthy eating in children. While soft drinks make up a small part of most children’s caloric intake, the calories they do contain provide little nutritional value and are less filling than calories consumed through food. As former...
...Bassett was paid $5,000 in May 2000 as a consultant to ADCS Corp., a company headed by Wilkes, Foggo's friend since childhood, according to disclosure forms Bassett filed when he was a House intelligence committee aide to Goss while the former Congressman was the panel's Republican chairman. Bassett was not working for the CIA at the time of the payment. Still, it may not look good for yet another of Goss's right-hand men to be associated with Wilkes - whom prosecutors allege, in Cunningham's guilty plea, provided more than $600,000 of the $2.4 million...