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...prices, which would give students the opportunity to plan for their expenses for the upcoming semester. “Textbook prices have far outpaced inflation over the past decade, now costing the average student close to $900 per year,” said Rachel Racusen, spokeswoman for Representative George Miller, the California Democrat who chairs the committee. “Making college more affordable and accessible has been a top priority for the Democratic Congress and the House Education and Labor Committee.” Colleges would also have to provide information about enrollment to bookstores so that they...
...We’ve never had a player leave the bench, and two guys definitely left the bench,” Penn coach Glen Miller said. “I have no argument with it. I was very concerned about our lack of depth as a result of that...
When Bennet Cerf, co-founder of Random House, was asked to describe the ideal best seller, he supposedly suggested the title Lincoln's Doctor's Dog. Pitches itself, doesn't it? There have been more books about Abraham Lincoln than any other American; this month brings us William Lee Miller's President Lincoln (Knopf; 497 pages), Allen C. Guelzo's Lincoln and Douglas (Simon & Schuster; 384 pages) and Did Lincoln Own Slaves? (Pantheon; 311 pages) by Gerald J. Prokopowicz, among others. That Lincoln is a suitable subject for scholarly work nobody would deny, but the volume of it suggests something...
...Miller's angle?and at this point, you really need an angle?is to restrict himself to Lincoln's time in office. The premise proves oddly rich and unclaustrophobic. If nothing else, President Lincoln is germaine to the current debate over the value of a presidential candidate's experience. When Lincoln was inaugurated, he had served one term as a Representative from Illinois; he had also run for the Senate and lost, twice. The outgoing President Buchanan took Lincoln aside for some advice: The right-hand well at the White House, he said, was way better than the left-hand...
...Miller is fascinated by the sustained brilliance with which Lincoln navigated the ensuing national convulsion, attempting to reconcile the obstreperous demands of political and military expediency, constitutional writ and, above all, his own galloping moral intelligence, though in places Miller's reverence for his subject borders on personal-ad territory (and he was tall! And funny!). A more caustic and fallible Lincoln appears in Lincoln and Douglas, which is surprisingly rip-roaring for a book about a series of debates in an Illinois Senate campaign. Lincoln makes fun of Stephen Douglas' height...