Word: elections
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...Teach For America, a project founded in 1990 by Princeton alum Wendy Kopp, places thousands of the nation’s top graduates in teaching positions in the poorest school districts. This year TFA has seen a marked rise in applications, including those from Harvard students. In November, President-elect Obama called on our nation to embrace public service. It seems that his hopes may yet be answered, as more and more Americans seem to have public service professions on their radar now. It is likely, of course, that one of the main sources of this increase in TFA interest...
...Ultimately, the immediate future of global climate-change action won't be decided in Brussels or Poznan but in Washington, D.C. - where there really is cause for hope. While President-elect Barack Obama (and his top emissaries) steered clear of the Poznan summit - understandable, since the Bush Administration's negotiating team was still in charge - at home the names of his climate and energy teams have been revealed. Lisa Jackson, a respected state official in New Jersey, will head the Environmental Protection Agency, while Carol Browner - head of the EPA under President Bill Clinton - will take a new position...
...politician, of course, would want to put lots of space between himself and a toxic scandal like this one, in which the sitting governor stands accused of trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder. Daley, though, has a special interest in trying to draw such a sharp line: not only has his own administration been dogged by patronage scandals and federal investigations, but John Harris, the governor's co-defendant and chief of staff, was once one of Daley's top lieutenants at City Hall. (See the top 10 scandals...
...instinct to distance self from •Obama's rumored first choice as his replacement is dismissed by because her campaign is "not willing to give me anything except appreciation. F--- them." •resentment of at being told to "suck it up" and give this "motherf---er the President-elect his senator. F--- him. For nothing? F--- him" •right to appoint senator of is said by to be "f---ing golden, and, uh, uh, I'm just not giving it up for f---in' nothing. I'm not gonna do it. And, and I can always...
...Before he sends another U.S. soldier off to die or be maimed in Afghanistan, President-elect Obama needs to deliver the blunt message to the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan that we will no longer tolerate their complicity in the deaths of Americans and our allies, a slaughter that began on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and continues to this day. Obama will soon own this aimless war if he does not somehow change that dynamic...