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...spokesman for the University of Washington said the school had not been hit with a taxpayer backlash after luring Emmert away from his previous post as chancellor of Louisiana State University this spring...
...Given his credentials and his previous salary at Louisiana State, people recognized that this was a good value for the money—even though the money was large,” said Bob Roseth, director of the school’s news office...
...Louisiana state representative and the founder of Teach for America were honored for their public service in education reform in a ceremony yesterday at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum...
Vitter's ascendancy is owed in no small part to Louisiana's idiosyncratic election system, in which multiple candidates, including pols from the same party, run together in a scrum. If no one crosses the 50% threshold, the top two vote getters--regardless of affiliation--move into a runoff. Facing four Democrats in a crowded field, Vitter won outright, becoming the first Republican U.S. Senator from Louisiana since Reconstruction. A flap created late in the race when Vitter enclosed dollar bills in a mass mailing to potential voters did not seem to hurt...
...Texas ?11 Missouri ?10 Arizona ? 9 Colorado ? 6 Arkansas ? 5 West Virginia ?15 North Carolina ?15 Georgia ?13 Virginia ?11 Tennessee ?11 Indiana ? 9 Alabama ? 9 Louisiana ? 8 Kentucky ? 8 South Carolina ? 7 Oklahoma ? 6 Kansas ? 6 Mississippi ? 5 Nebraska ? 5 Utah ? 4 Idaho ? 3 Alaska ? 3 Montana ? 3 North Dakota ? 3 South Dakota ? 3 Wyoming ?20 Ohio ?27 Florida ? 5 Nevada Close calls