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...Huckabee may bring enough conservative fundamentalist voters to the polls on March 4 to swing the balance of power on the board to the supporters of creationism. "If Huckabee marshals the religious right in Texas, particularly in North Texas, it has profound implications for the state board," says Kathy Miller, executive director of the Texas Freedom Network (TFN), an Austin-based advocacy group whose stated goal is to "counter the religious right" in public policy issues, particularly education...
...Texas Bible Belt - conservative towns like Tyler in east Texas; Waco, home to Baylor University; Plano, a conservative, affluent Dallas-area community; and Fort Worth, where Huckabee attended the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in the 1970s. It is his efforts in Fort Worth that concern advocates like Miller; there SBOE District 11 member Pat Hardy, a former schoolteacher, curriculum adviser and moderate Republican, is facing a challenge from fellow Republican Barney Maddox, a urologist and ardent supporter of creationism. With no Democratic candidate on the ballot, Tuesday's winner will take a seat on the contentious 15-member board. Maddox...
Given the Lone Star state's influence as the second largest purchaser of textbooks nationally, any changes likely would have had a ripple effect across the country. Miller says she is concerned that if the social conservatives gain the upper hand they may try to reassert that influence by drawing up a conservative curriculum that would necessarily have to be addressed in textbooks. "One vote, one member, could be the difference between kids getting a 21st century science education or a 19th century education," Miller said...
...control our game and how to control the pace of our game,” she added. “There were no surprises.” Harvard’s success was in no small part due to the addition of a new head coach, Lisa Miller. Miller recently left Syracuse, where she turned the women’s lacrosse team into a national powerhouse and captured the 2007 Big East Coach of the Year award. With high expectations, Miller wasted no time as she implemented drastic changes to the Crimson program. Some of her tactics were criticized...
...McGeary shooting three for the Crimson. He makes two free throws to tie the game. Back on the other end, Doug Miller forces his counterpart (Also numbered 34) out of bounds. McGeary showing some shake and bake moves on the baseline, forces the blocking violation. Harvard 10, Princeton...