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...Administration's pick." Younger members of the committee are on the fence. Bob Corker of Tennessee has been sober in the face of outrage over the International Monetary Fund's use of currency reserves to stabilize the global financial system, a favorite Beck bugaboo. Johnny Isakson of Georgia has an unperturbably conservative view of the Executive Branch's authorities. Some may split the difference by grilling Koh, then voting for him on the principle that the President should get his pick...
...Such a crowd was standard for the Georgia high school football championship game. Georgia is football country, and Witt, then a high school senior, led Parkville High School to its promised land. The college coaches were calling, had been calling for some time now. Stanford expressed interest, Dartmouth left messages, Harvard sent e-mails. A scholarship to some Division I institution seemed assured...
...then there's Georgia. Enrollment at the state's 33 technical colleges has jumped 10% over this time last year, with the biggest growth (12%) in students ages 21 to 35 and an 8% spike in students over age 36. Many of those folks are workers displaced by the recession, whose tuition is being paid by a statewide program called HOPE (for Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally) and who are drawing unemployment benefits to pay the bills while they attend school...
...silver lining for Georgia taxpayers? HOPE doesn't cost them a dime. The program, which has shelled out $4.4 billion in tuition money since its inception in 1994, is entirely funded by the Georgia State Lottery...
Birders Paradise. At Aska Lodge in Georgia's Blue Ridge mountains, an hour and a half from Atlanta, the thrashers, goldfinches, ruby-breasted grosbeaks, red-shouldered hawks and hummingbirds are out and about. Stay two nights and receive a $20 lodging credit, a Georgia Birds pocket guide and a birdhouse to take home. Rates start at $96 midweek. Through June 26. 178 Calen Drive, Blue Ridge...