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...February included $100 billion in new education spending. Of that total, Duncan has $5 billion in discretionary funding. That money alone makes him the most powerful Education Secretary ever. "I had very little--in the single-digit millions," says Margaret Spellings, Duncan's predecessor. "That's millions, with an m...
...that much money and you're using the language that the Secretary is using, then you get states already starting to change some of their laws before any money has actually been given out," says Representative John Kline, the new ranking Republican member of the House Education Committee. "I'm not completely comfortable with that...
That's a tough one. Ken Jennings wound up winning 74 times. I'm not sure we're going to see that kind of success ever again. He was with us for 4½ months. My gosh, I was spending more time with Ken Jennings than I was with my wife...
...occasion, the contestants will jump around the board instead of taking a category with the clues in order. So I decided many years ago I was going to cross the clues off so I do not, in error, go back and reread them. I'm pretty good now. I never read a clue that has a big X through it. That's why they pay me the big bucks...
...challenged O'Neal to a writing contest. We each had four days to craft 400 words about Twitter, and we'd let TIME.com readers, who I'm sure are not at all biased toward celebrities, vote for the superior writer. I called O'Neal to do some pregame trash-talking, which I thought would be a better idea than doing it to his face, partly because I'm a coward and partly because his face would be so far away...