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...However, Harvard’s very competitive role in the matchup should not be overlooked, especially considering the caliber of skill seen in the Bulls. Attinella ranks fifth in the nation with a .881 save percentage, with USF also claiming the potent triple offensive threat of Boggs, and seniors Jordan Seabrook and Kevin Neaves, who all entered the game with double-digit figures in points...
...McCain to move forward on that,” Senate Majority leader Harry Reid said in an interview with the Gannett News Service last weekend. Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, has pushed the Senate to enact comprehensive immigration reform in recent years. Last June, amid a fevered debate and nation-wide protests, the Senate failed to pass a massive immigration reform act that included a provision allowing public colleges to offer in-state tuition rates to undocumented immigrants. If passed, the bill would have also opened a path to citizenship for illegal aliens who entered the country as children...
...time when 80 percent of Americans believe the nation is suffering from a “leadership crisis,” the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership has selected 24 individuals for its fourth annual profile of “America’s Best Leaders.” The leaders include prominent philanthropists, doctors, professors and CEOs. The list was published in this week’s issue of “U.S. News and World Report.” The selected honorees were chosen in a two-step process. First, a research group...
...record numbers of applications collide head-on with deep budget cuts, on Nov. 20 the nation's largest university system announced plans to decrease its student body by at least 10,000 students and to cap enrollment at all 23 of its campuses. Says Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education, a lobbying firm that represents 1,800 colleges and universities: "What you're seeing in California is a double witching hour." Cal State, which experienced a 20% increase in first-year applications this fall, is the first public university to cap enrollment since the market meltdown in September...
...issue. The state has vowed to appeal, and the issue is likely to end up before the Florida Supreme Court, which upheld the ban once before in 1995. On the federal level, the U.S. Supreme Court has already let stand lower court rulings that upheld Florida's law, the nation's strictest ban on gay adoption. (See a video on the backlash against gay marriage in Florida...