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...colleges as "underfunded miracles." With a meager $4.9 million budget provided mostly by the Federal Government, his school operates on a thin shoestring indeed. But Chief Dull Knife College perseveres, holding out hope for a new generation of Northern Cheyennes. More than half its graduates now go on to four-year schools. One of them is Jennifer Wooden Legs, 29, daughter of the college-board chairman, whose academic career was postponed by five horrific years of meth addiction. ("Very awful stuff, very hard to get over," she says.) Jennifer, a single mother, will graduate next June, and plans to study...
...East End in 1934, Gray was always as at home with words and pictures as he was set apart from society by his lifelong asthma and eczema. At Glasgow's School of Art, he specialized in mural-painting before graduating to a life of persistent penury with a four-year, wage-free commission to paint The Seven Days of Creation on the ceiling and walls of a local church. Almost no one saw it before the building was razed...
...Four superb players. Four seniors, no less. Four years spent together. Four unique sets of abilities that set them apart. All on one squad—the Harvard women’s soccer team.The numbers add up quite nicely for the Crimson’s fantastic foursome of defender Nikki Rhodes, forward Erin Wylie, and midfielders Rachael Lau and Allison Keeley, first featured together in the Crimson on September 28, 2005.Having since then withstood three different coaches and countless teammate changes, these four of the five seniors on the current team remain today as a steady ship of calm amidst...
...Still, sponsoring a sports team is unlikely to bring a company down on its own. Even in the case of AIG - whose $112 million, four-year tie-up with United is the most expensive ever in English football - "if you look at the overall marketing spend of the companies involved, the shirt sponsorship was tiny," points out Rob Mason, managing director of SBI, a British sponsorship consultancy. Any link between the deal and AIG's current woes, Mason says, is "coincidental...
Palin has a predictably homespun answer. "As the mother of five, I know how to multitask," said the governor in a recent statement. But it's clear that Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell, 46, will pick up a number of executive functions while Palin - midway through a four-year gubernatorial term - multitasks elsewhere...