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...Institute of Politics. “Obama was more logical and McCain used lots of one liners, but at the end he was very passionate.” Many of the gatherings were packed to the door, and at the IOP—where the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum was filled to capacity—students dropping by late were met with locked doors. Freshmen crowded into the Wigglesworth common room, leaving little room even to stand. Upwards of 100 students gathered at the Student Organization Center at Hilles as part of an event put on by the Black...

Author: By Anna S. Roth, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Assemble Across Campus to Watch Obama and McCain Duke It Out | 9/28/2008 | See Source »

Paulson, Henry M., Jr. •proposal that Congress give him $700 billion to use however he wants with absolutely no oversight offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Wrapup | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

...their rhetoric is still as offensive as ever, the KKK no longer has much electoral influence, even in the Deep South. Clayborne Carson, a Stanford history professor and founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, says he can't think of one recent black politician whose candidacy has been seriously affected by Klan opposition. "They haven't been a significant factor for many years in American politics," he says, calling the White Knights' announcement a "publicity stunt." And many students say the plan for "invisibility" makes the Klan seem weak, not intimidating, and insist that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unwelcome Visitors at the Ole Miss Debate: The Ku Klux Klan | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

...Band to a classy display by some cadets that included physical attacks and homophobic slurs. Officers and gentlemen at their finest.Look for Princeton to rebound against the Mountain Hawks behind the dangerous Brian Anderson, a veritable running threat at quarterback. Lehigh lost its own versatile signal caller, Sedale Threatt Jr., to graduation last year, and the team should be rusty after a two week layover following a loss to Villanova.Prediction: Princeton 17, Lehigh 10—Staff writer Loren Amor can be reached at lamor@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: 2008 Race For The Ivy Title | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...center for education research, backed by philanthropist Eli Broad and led by economics professor Roland G. Fryer Jr., will open soon at Harvard, the Broad Foundation announced yesterday at the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York.The $44-million effort, called the Education Innovation Laboratory (or “EdLabs”), will bring together economists and educators to study strategies for improving K-12 public school education. Research will focus on three test cities, New York, Washington, and Chicago.Different schemes will be implemented in each city, allowing researchers to test controversial programs like compensating students for high test...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Broad Taps Fryer To Lead New Ed Center | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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