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President Bush looked like a man who'd finished a marathon when he signed the $26.5 billion education bill into law Tuesday morning: exhausted and proud. And with good reason: after five months of partisan bickering in Congress, the President realized his number one domestic priority amidst a crowd of onlookers at an Ohio public school. "As of this hour, America's schools will be on a new path of reform and a new path of results," Bush said at Hamilton High School, near Cincinnati. "From this day forward, all students will have a better chance to learn, to excel...
...tunes that were timeless. Berlin the musical merchant was compelled to write tunes that were timely - topical songs, whose newsworthy subjects would help sell the music. His very first hit was "Dorando," inspired by a London waiter and long-distance runner: he was the leader in the 1908 Olympic marathon but was disqualified when his supporters helped him across the finish line. Over the years he produced musical editorials supporting Al Smith and Dwight Eisenhower, opposing Prohibition ("You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea"), defending the gold standard ("Debts," with the couplet "Uncle Sam will be in heaven/ When...
...compromise came after a marathon negotiation session that included high-ranking AFL-CIO officials and top Harvard administrators, including General Counsel Anne Taylor and former Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Paul S. Grogan...
Bonner, who did not win a council spot this year, stressed her central role in planning events such as last years AIDS Week and Dance Marathon, an event to raise money for research on pediatric AIDS...
...working on the Bonner-Long campaign and founded BASIC and Har’dCorps, said the groups’ decisions were based on Bonner and Long’s “vision” for community service. He said this vision is manifested in projects like Dance Marathon, a project which Bonner is involved in that raises money for pediatric AIDS...