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What can he do about it? We're about to find out. In May, Clinton and the American Heart Association announced a campaign to reduce childhood obesity in the U.S. within 10 years. The effort will begin in earnest in September, and as I traveled with the former President last week, he outlined his plans...
Classmates from both law school and college remember Roberts as a hard working, earnest, kind, and brilliant person. Roberts, who graduated from the College with a summa cum laude degree in History in just three years, wrote his thesis on British liberalism in the early 20th Century...
...ceremony was "wonderfully quiet, earnest, and solemn," Douglass noted. There was a "leaden stillness about the crowd" as Lincoln delivered his address, and Douglass thought it sounded "more like a sermon than a state paper." After the ceremony he went to the reception at the White House. As he was about to enter, two policemen rudely yanked him away and told him no persons of color were allowed to enter. Douglass said there must be some mistake, for no such order could have come from the President. The police refused to yield, until Douglass sent word to Lincoln that...
...fourth season this Canadian young-adult soap tangles with sexually transmitted disease, mental illness and cheating--oh, plus the aftermath of last season's school shooting. But Degrassi's frank, melodrama-free writing and well-chosen cast--who, shockingly, actually look and act like kids--save it from earnest afterschool specialdom...
Congress should pass aid to the contras, while the Administration should pursue a diplomatic solution in earnest...