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Hundreds of students gathered in senior suites and House common rooms last Thursday to watch the showdown between Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden. While many people—from students to pundits—were vocal in their opinions of the candidates’ performances, few have the inside view of Andrew Halcro, who ran against Palin for governor of Alaska in 2006. Halcro, who attended an executive education program at the Kennedy School in 2003 and another at the Business School the following year, served as a Republican member of the Alaska...
...Even after receiving this impassioned plea, Ifill did not ask any direct questions about schools during Thursday's vice-presidential debate. However, when she asked about budget priorities, Joe Biden vowed the Democratic ticket would not scale back its $18 billion education-spending plan, despite the $700 billion federal economic bailout Congress was working feverishly to pass. "We won't slow up on education because that's the engine that's going to give us the economic growth and competitiveness we need," Biden said. Sarah Palin, for her part, called for state standards to be raised as well as funding...
...only heard of the big artists. Zhou Tiehai with his computer-generated superimpositions of Joe Camel’s face onto famous Western paintings, or Wang Guangyi and his retooling of propaganda posters to incorporate an excessive amount of corporate logos. Yue Minjun’s trademark is fashioning representations of his face while smiling (in every medium imaginable), and then, of course, there is the work of Zhang Xiaogang whose black-and-white paintings of 1950s era Chinese families have sold for upwards of US$2 million at auction. While these men are undoubtably the blue chip artists...
...Biden, Joe • McCain's maverickness is challenged...
...Court cases is displayed by •increase in powers of vice president is desired by •"maverick" is repeatedly uttered in debate by •"nucular" is repeatedly uttered in debate by •removal of from Republican ticket is urged by former supporter of •self is identified as "normal Joe Six-Pack American" by •situation of teenage girl raped by her father is referred to as "absolutely less than ideal...