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...bill - who did he think he was, anyway? - and in 1867 the House Judiciary Committee drew up a long list of complaints about him and recommended that he be impeached. The vote never passed and was shelved until 1868, when Johnon fired a political rival, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton - in violation of the Tenure of Office Act, which said that the President couldn't remove a Senate appointee without the Senate's approval. The House voted to impeach, and the Senate came very close to agreeing - Johnson clung to the Presidency by just one vote. But in the following...
...Kennedy School and a major campus thoroughfare are named, she spent her undergraduate career at Harvard much like any other student, living in the freshman dorms and even writing a few stories for The Crimson.After graduation, she worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her husband Edwin A. Schlossberg, and then received a law degree from Columbia.In recent years, Kennedy has been very involved with New York public schools, first running the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the city’s Department of Education from 2002 to 2004 and now raising private funding as vice chair...
...pouring over Zimbabwe's borders, all southern Africa too. After initially denying there was a problem, Zimbabwe's regime changed its tune last week, saying it could not cope with the health crisis. "With the coming of the rainy season, the situation could get worse," said deputy health minister Edwin Muguti. "Our problems are quite simple. We need to be helped...
...failure to account for the fear, euphoria, and panic that often drive markets. Combining his expertise in history and economics, Ferguson traced the historical development of the modern financial system. “He bridges two disciplines in a way that makes him really insightful,” said Edwin O. Robinson, an attendee, after the talk. Ferguson questioned the global appetite for U.S. debt, adding that the global bond market that has financed American deficit spending may not be willing to continue buying Treasury Bonds. He characterized the relationship between the United States and its foreign creditors...
...when she signed up for The Pleasures of Japanese Poetry. Coman, born in Comstantza, Romania, had already been practicing haiku for eight years and has published two books, one on haiku and one on rensaku. The seminar involved reading, writing, and translating Japanese poetry, and Professor of Japanese Literature Edwin A. Cranston began the year by having his students make their own linked-verses, expecting students to write in English. To the surprise of Cranston and the rest of the class, Coman completed hers in modern Japanese. “Most of us were just taking the class because...