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...Bill Clinton named him Deputy Attorney General. Holder's decision four years later to facilitate a presidential pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich was a blunder, he later admitted. It revealed the danger that occurs when top officials forget that their job is not to accommodate political masters in the White House--an issue that dominated Holder's confirmation hearing...
...Civil War will not go away,” Marc Egnal begins his new book, “Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War.” This grand statement strikes the reader with the relevance and importance of his argument right from the start...
...Myths are luxuries that no nation can afford,” Egnal says, and this message could not be more correct or relevant. Marc Egnal is right. We cannot live with the history we want; we must accept all of its complications and difficulties, no matter how hard that...
...high school—an option she heard about only through hearsay. Nolan and other committee members said this should not be the case. “We need something institutionalized for kids who would benefit from an advanced math curriculum,” said committee member Marc C. McGovern. Nolan said that many parents of children who are not challenged by their math curriculum are concerned that the district has neglected its abler students. In an e-mail to Nolan, parent Joy Lucas wrote, “As a parent I would like to feel confident that gifted children...
...charter school with 80 percent of students in need, not that many students of privilege would apply to that school,” he said, adding that the best model would be to have schools reflect the overall population of their communities. But Cambridge Public Schools committee member Marc C. McGovern objects to the funding formula for charter schools in general. For every student that goes to a charter school, money that would otherwise go to the school district would go to the charter school—which, according to McGovern, does not always provide the same services that district...