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...Nightly News. Barack Obama's election has forever changed the poster of the Presidents in the front of most elementary-school classrooms in the U.S. We have now lived long enough to see historic change in the White House. Converting that into a successful presidency is another matter...
What will set this curriculum apart from previous ones may be the extent to which Gen Ed courses tie the subject matter to students’ lives outside of the classroom...
...their own way, the new Gen Ed categories are broad enough to give professors the leeway to teach the subject matter they want. But with a limited selection of departmental alternatives, student choice may remain narrow. In the meantime, freshmen are relatively uninformed about the change...
...have alternatives to the tax codes ... When you get angry, you don't think as clearly as when you calm down." He added, "It is tough to me to think of the tax code as a political weapon." Rangel would be a huge obstacle to any such bill, no matter who originates it. Others say this type of legislation would raise the ugly face of nationalization and the specter of politicians micromanaging the financial system because the government "owns" it. Representative Elijah Cummings, a senior member of the House Oversight Committee who has been looking into AIG for months, said...
...drift toward insurgents who pay them to join their ranks. Still, members of an intimidated population must also feel secure enough to know that if they turn in an insurgent, they won't face revenge attacks. "You can go kill and capture [insurgents] all you want; it doesn't matter. The people have got to turn against them, and they haven't yet in Mosul because they're intimidated," Brown says. "And I don't blame them...