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...increase to finance them. He infuriated the right last year by joining the bipartisan, largely moderate "Gang of 14" that blocked a change in Senate rules that would have ended Democratic filibusters of Bush's judicial nominees. Graham more recently helped ice the appeals-court nomination of Defense Department counsel William Haynes, an architect of the Administration's detainee policy...
Located in a gray house down Linden Street, the Bureau of Study Council (BSC) straddles two purposes: to help students adjust to college work and to counsel students adjusting to college life. Given its dual mission, programs through the BSC can seem like a combination of Positive Psych section and a “How to Live Your Best Life” Oprah segment. But for students looking for understanding adults and a mix of undergraduates and grad students to talk to, the BSC can feel homey. Students needing a tutor can get one through the BSC, but with...
...Senate. It’s a topic he knows well—in the 1960s and 1970s, he was a top adviser to Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 and returned to the Massachusetts Democrat’s office as chief counsel three years ago. Hicks, who worked on Howard Dean’s presidential campaign as well as British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s re-election bid, will lead a study group on electoral organizing. She said she hopes to help students become “more informed about the political...
...first post the Pope had to fill was his own old job, to head of the Vatican office that oversees doctrinal orthodoxy. His choice of the then Archbishop of San Francisco, William J. Levada, was the first sign that Benedict would take his own counsel on key personnel changes. Defying conventional wisdom that the doctrinal capo had to be a European intellectual heavy hitter, the Pope chose the shy California native whom he'd known well when they worked together in Rome in the early 1980s. By choosing Levada it was also evident that the Vatican's theologian-in-chief...
...Imagine the law school using this learning environment to argue a virtual court case or the med school to simulate an ER environment... or social work to counsel an inmate in a prison environment," she says. But, she adds, "the next critical step is to complete the research necessary to determine if this new interactive virtual reality theater is effective in helping people with communication disorders." Meanwhile she has just received a Presidential Research Initiative Grant for $80,000 to create four more virtual reality films to Case Western students...