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...December 2008, he was awarded an honorary degree by the University in a special ceremony, as he was unable to attend the June 2008 Commencement exercises due to his illness. The audience included Kerry, Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, and Vice President Joseph R. Biden...
...donors away from Sestak, he can probably count on younger and more liberal democratic donors, including some nationally in what's known as the Netroots movement of progressive bloggers and Internet users - the same people that helped Democrat Ned Lamont upset longtime Democratic incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut primary in 2006. Lieberman quickly switched to independent and won his seat back anyway, but Pennsylvania law would prevent Specter from doing the same if he loses the primary...
Prisons are violent places by nature. America's first recorded prison riot took place even before the Declaration of Independence, in Connecticut's Newgate prison in 1774, and uprisings continue to this day. One report estimates that U.S. correctional institutions saw more than 1,300 riots in the 20th century. Prison insurgencies can be tied to a wide range of causes, including racial tension, gang rivalries, individual feuds and general grievances against guards and prison administrators. (See pictures of Gitmo detainees' portraits...
...Hollywood director and the suburban-Connecticut teenager exchanged handwritten letters once a month for two years. Byrne Fields learned to drive; Hughes made Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Byrne Fields and her mother moved in with her stepfather; Hughes sent her the script for his new film, Pretty in Pink. When the movie came out, Byrne Fields reviewed it for her school newspaper. "I gave it a bad review," she says. "I told him that Andrew McCarthy was bland." (See the top 10 John Hughes moments...
...ideas are rare because other people have already had them. In the office hang copies of our studies, which include “A Connecticut Assessment of State Income Taxation: Fueling Government, Stalling the Economy”; “Fifteen Years of Folly: The Failures of Connecticut’s Income Tax”; and “Save Connecticut’s Financial Future: Eliminate the Income Tax.” I’d say we’ve covered the income...