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...Richard became chair of the department and later director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. In 1994, she was chosen to be the provost of Yale, a post that brings with it a higher profile than its counterpart at Harvard...
...Style is as much on everyone's mind as substance. Many were trying to make nice, as members spoke endlessly of the virtues of bipartisanship and pledged to work together. South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, the new House majority whip and his minority counterpart, Blunt, held a joint event, with Clyburn accepting an actual whip and the pair praising each other. Clyburn said he and Blunt "would continue to have our good working relationship." Blunt, the man in charge of blocking the Democrats' agenda, not only extolled Clyburn, but said "there's a lot to admire about Nancy Pelosi." Clyburn...
...when they held control. And while Pelosi will have little difficulty moving bills out of the House in the first hundred hours of her speakership, thanks to the majority-friendly rules of the institution, things will be decidedly slower on the other side of the building. Pelosi's Senate counterpart, Majority Leader Harry Reid, is facing challenges on all three of his first initiatives: lobbying reform, minimum wage and prescription drug reform...
...tenure in statewide office of any nominee from either party since 1952, when first-term Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson took on Dwight Eisenhower, who had not held elective office. One of Obama's likely opponents, Delaware's Joe Biden, served in the Senate for a decade before his Illinois counterpart even graduated from college; Obama's legislative record from his two years in Washington is so slim that one of his biggest accomplishments was a bill he got passed that creates a Google-like database where Americans can search all government spending. In October, Kerry, who is considering another presidential...
...UNH.Although the Wildcats could be happy that their effort paid off with a tie, Kessler and the Crimson successfully frustrated one of the nation’s best teams in an impressive way in the second period. UNH outshot Harvard, took one penalty, and generally seemed to outplay its counterpart on the ice.Nevertheless, Cahow’s fifth goal of the season on the Crimson’s lone power play meant that the Wildcats left the ice at the second intermission with a larger deficit.“Probably the most disheartening thing for us was that we outshot...