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They're being led by John Snow, the new Treasury Secretary, who is putting his skills as a former lobbyist to good use on trips to Capitol Hill, where key G.O.P. Senators like Iowa's Chuck Grassley and Ohio's George Voinovich have suggested the President's plan won't pass without big changes. During downtime on the Hill last week he started cold-calling lawmakers, dispensing with the custom of scheduled conversations. "John Snow here," he bellowed out to bewildered interns...
Allied victory unleashed a surge of technological progress and prosperity at war's end. On Feb. 14, 1946, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania unveiled the first electronic, digital computer. A year later, on Oct. 14, 1947, Air Force pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. There were cultural and social developments too. An exhibit of Jackson Pollock's first drip paintings opened on Jan. 5, 1948. Early signs of a civil rights awakening came as Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier on April...
...Theresa B. Newton ’06, hot younger sister of Chuck K. Newton ’03, keeps freaking people out because she looks like her brother, but with long hair and breasts. “Look, the female version of Chuck is hot!” commented Newton blockmate Jake W. Edsall ’03?...
...Chuck Eastlake, a professor of aerospace engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, agrees, adding that despite increased automation of in-flight procedures and even experiments, the importance of human intellect cannot be discounted. "If I were personally in charge of a mission," he says, "I would feel far more confident of success if there were a person on board to deal with contingencies...
...program," says Louisiana's Republican Governor Mike Foster. Some of the fiercest resistance has come from the Republican stronghold of Nebraska, whose Governor Mike Johanns was among the earliest supporters of Bush in his presidential bid. "The bill is the biggest federal grab in the history of education," says Chuck Hagel, the state's Republican Senator. While the cornerstone of the law mandates statewide standardized exams in Grades 3 through 8, Nebraska wants to stick with its own system, which formally tests students in only two of these years with exams designed in large part by local teachers. "Over...