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...BUNNING, Republican Senator from Kentucky, who held up a Senate vote on extending unemployment benefits for nearly a week before finally relenting on March...
...always fascinating to see someone renounce previously held beliefs. Such unabashed 180s are a rare sight both in politics--where an opinion once stated is by necessity an opinion forever defended--and in academia, which is only slightly less afflicted by the cult of the certain. Diane Ravitch, a prominent education historian and former Assistant Secretary of Education, stands at the intersection of the two spheres. Once a proponent of charter schools, standardized testing and merit pay, Ravitch now uses Death and Life to proclaim her ardent opposition to the seemingly unstoppable engine of the education-reform movement, which...
Inside the new Obama White House, the President's team included green-energy boosters in the policy skull sessions, and regular meetings with outside advisers and nearly weekly public events were held to promote green energy as a way to create jobs. Some of the heaviest hitters were on the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, a committee of corporate leaders and economists whom Obama brought inside the White House to advise on everything from regulatory reform to global warming. Formed during the transition, it included top fundraisers such as Hyatt family scion Penny Pritzker, Obama's Silicon Valley ally...
When Dawn was just a child, she visited SeaWorld with her family. On that same day, she told her parents she wanted to be a whale trainer when she grew up. Dawn held tight to that dream. But she didn't just become a whale trainer. She became one of the most dedicated and talented trainers SeaWorld would ever know...
Then, a double fault gave the Red Storm a point to make the score 40-30. In the next exchange, Omodele-Lucien’s opponent lobbed a shot into the back corner to knot the score at deuce. Yet, Omodele-Lucien held on and captured the next two points for a 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 victory...