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Colleges and universities have seen tuition and fees outpace yearly inflation since the inception of the Guaranteed Student Loan program by the Johnson administration in 1965. Yet what President Lyndon B. Johnson intended as a supplement to college funding—loans— has now become the main course...
...tendency to quote the classics, Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for four decades, was an erudite icon. A tenacious athlete--he got his Taekwondo black belt at 78--Valenti was well suited to his role as Hollywood lobbyist-ambassador. One of Lyndon Johnson's closest aides, he was in the motorcade in which John F. Kennedy was killed and attended Johnson's sober swearing-in on Air Force One. As head of the MPAA from 1966 to 2004, he championed open markets for movies, fought digital piracy, decried censorship and launched the self-policing...
...reasonably well, and the incumbents were re-elected (F.D.R. in 1944, Bush in 2004). Twice, the wars were not going well, and the incumbent party lost (Korea in 1952, with Harry Truman choosing not to run and Dwight Eisenhower beating Adlai Stevenson; and Vietnam in 1968, with Lyndon Johnson withdrawing and Richard Nixon beating Hubert Humphrey...
...Boston University, Brown and MIT from contention. Though eight schools remained, it had already become clear that the regatta would end up being a four-team competition.“As the regatta progressed, it was apparent that four teams were equally good,” senior skipper Clay Johnson said.Another round robin eliminated Tufts, the Coast Guard Academy, Roger Williams and Connecticut College, leaving four teams—Yale, Dartmouth, Boston College and Harvard—to battle for just three nationals spots.“It was very touch and go as to who was going to qualify...
...said. “It can be potentially helpful,” adding that such relationships help educate physicians about new drugs and treatments. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), a Washington-based trade group funded by pharmaceutical companies, maintains that its current practices are necessary. Ken Johnson, a senior vice president of PhRMA wrote in an e-mailed statement that “pharmaceutical marketing is one of several important ways for health care providers to receive the information they need to make sure medicines are used properly and patients are safely and effectively treated...