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...high cost of tuition has an intense personal impact on individual families," said Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), the ranking Democrat on the committee. "But if college becomes a luxury that an increasing percentage of the population cannot afford, the economic divide between the have and the have-nots could undercut the American dream and stunt the nation's economic growth...
...Weber, who first developed the term, considered Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith and Martin Luther "charismatic," but would surely not have extended the honor to the Indigo Girls. For Weber, followers are drawn to a charismatic leader because of his extraordinary, almost god-like, personal qualities. By virtue of his heroic personality, the charismatic leader gives rules without regard to traditional authority ("It is written, but I say unto you") and commands total devotion from his disciples...
...list of phrases--"precious, inconsequential, pointless"--to describe the journal). "Twentieth-century art was concerned with the thingness of things, how a painting is paint on a canvas," she says. "You can see that in how he emphasizes the journalness of the journal." It is the magazine as Joseph Cornell...
Festering memories of those incidents - along with Sharpton's protests and the fact that the proceedings are being broadcast nationally on Court TV - have created a volatile atmosphere that puts a heavy burden on the judge, Joseph Teresi, to conduct the trial in a way both sides perceive as fair. So far, he has been up to it. When defense lawyers attempted to block prospective jurors who were black, Teresi stopped them cold and seated a panel that has four black members out of 12, twice as many as veteran criminal attorneys say they have ever seen in any Albany...
...more off guard: The diversity of the jury or the speed with which the closely watched case is proceeding. According to TIME columnist Jack White, who's covering the trial in the upstate New York capital this week, we can thank the presiding judge for these happy surprises. "Judge [Joseph] Terisi is extremely efficient - he has complete control over this trial," says White. "He's responsible for the speedy selection of jurors and also for diversity of the jury; no one in Albany can remember another jury with so many blacks...