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During the All-Ivy pair’s tenure at Harvard, the duo led the Crimson to 52 wins, four consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, and two Ivy League championships over a four-year span...
...long way to go. One of only five Republicans in the 40-seat state senate, Brown wasn't even the best-known person in his family. His wife Gail Huff is a popular television reporter. His daughter Ayla was a semifinalist on American Idol and a four-year starter on the Boston College women's basketball team. The couple's other daughter, Arianna, is a premed freshman at Syracuse University. As picture-perfect as the Brown family looks, the Senator-elect's upbringing was anything but. His parents each married four times, and his mother was briefly on welfare. Brown...
While Schwarzenegger's plan spares the state's four-year universities, K-12 schools and two-year community colleges get whacked, losing $2.4 billion in funding. And it remains unclear how prison costs can be contained. Schwarzenegger wants to privatize the prisons, but to do so, he will have to defeat the powerful prison-guard union. After years of stiffer sentences supported by politicians and voters, California's prison population has exploded to 170,000 inmates. Overcrowding is so severe that federal judges have ordered the state to reduce the prison population by 40,000 over the next two years...
...Putin's answer was hardly surprising. In 2008, with the constitution barring him from running for a third four-year term, Putin stepped down as President, chose ally Dmitri Medvedev as a successor and then took the post of Prime Minister for himself. Widely regarded as a placeholder President, Medvedev has no political power base of his own, little charisma and a rather awkward habit of trying to imitate Putin's macho demeanor. Many of his key advisers once worked on Putin's staff...
SANDRA CLIFTON, one of the researchers who, in a four-year study, pinpointed the crop's genetic code, which promises to help farmers achieve higher yields...