Word: lamar
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...partisan bickering over the new approaches being taken. But that hasn't happened. Democrat George Miller, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, came down and worked out ways to provide incentives for the teachers and educators willing to move there. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, a former Education Secretary, have also become deeply involved in finding practical solutions to the myriad federal bureaucratic challenges that come with building a new type of system from scratch...
...pass a timetable for withdrawal. Even the old bull Republicans who have "abandoned" the President aren't prepared to vote with the Democrats just yet. The most interesting vote in the next few weeks will be on a bipartisan amendment, sponsored by Democrat Ken Salazar of Colorado and Republican Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, that would enshrine the findings of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group as national policy. One of those findings calls for the withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by March 2008, but the wording is sufficiently muzzy--the President can change policy "subject to unexpected...
...then Thursday morning, on the Senate floor, Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander delivered a speech in which he promised to introduce legislation in a few weeks that would more or less make the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group proposals of last December (which emphasized the training of Iraqi forces at the core of the U.S. military mission in Iraq) as "the basis for future U.S. strategy in Iraq." Alexander's measure is not a resolution; if passed, it would go to the President's desk for his signature - or veto...
...discussed at this time because it would be counter-productive to the selection process.”The players themselves have been trying to conduct business as usual as they wait to help decide on the new coach.Lifting sessions have begun and individual workouts will begin soon. Assistant coaches Lamar Reddicks and Billy Holden are still around despite the uncertainty of their future positions with the program.Organized pick-up games have been sparse, but that is due mainly to a rash of injuries suffered by the players, not the lack of a head coach. Nevertheless, the players will likely...
...monetary gain.” The NCAA yesterday referred additional requests for comment to a statement on the organization’s Web site, which said that a student-athlete who engages in any sports wagering activity would be declared ineligible for competition for one year. Assistant Basketball Coach Lamar Reddicks said that his players have already been warned against gambling of any kind. He did not comment on the Facebook pools in particular. “Our players are informed by our compliance office and our staff,” Reddicks said. “Every year, our players...