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...Jefferson Flanders ’77, president of MindEdge, the publishing company which issues Mills’ textbook and developed the software used in the class, said that the course was designed “more for the Facebook generation than for the textbook generation...
...that the annual address has become the most important speech a president gives in any year, it?s hard to remember that until Woodrow Wilson, presidents from Thomas Jefferson on used to simply deliver a State of the Union message to Congress without appearing in person. It was more of a memo than a speech. As recently as 1964, the speech was given at midday to a much smaller television audience. The State of the Union we know for its theatrics is all relatively new, with the tradition of inviting and singling out special guests only begun by (who else...
...states were more active than Missouri, where Republicans last year took control of the Governor's mansion and both houses of the legislature for the first time in 84 years and thus strengthened the antiabortion majority in the statehouse in Jefferson City. Governor Matt Blunt even summoned the legislature into special session in September to pass bills that allow civil suits to be brought against anyone who helps a Missouri teen obtain an abortion without a parent's consent and that require doctors who perform abortions to have privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic. Generally, only...
Before Katrina pounded New Orleans last summer, that city's longstanding reputation for graft was reinforced by Operation Wrinkled Robe, which uncovered a bribery scheme initiated by a bail-bonds company at a local courthouse. In addition to various officials in the Jefferson Parish sheriff's office, two state judges were convicted for their roles in helping steer business (i.e., prisoners) to the firm. In San Diego local government has been effectively frozen--and a city-council member has been convicted (although he remains free on appeal)--as a result of a scandal in which local officials accepted cash bribes...
...Bush wondered if his two immediate predecessors in the White House might be willing to suit up and hit the road. He asked his chief of staff, "Do you think they'd work together?" The easy, reflex answer would have been no. George Herbert Walker Bush and William Jefferson Clinton came from different generations, from different social classes and from opposing political parties. Their 1992 face-off wasn't exactly tea and sympathy: Bush once called Clinton a "bozo," and Clinton usually referred to his rival as "Old Bush." The 10 years that followed weren't much better...