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Despite not-bad first-half financial results, these are cautious times for Roberts and his son Brian, 49, the corporation's CEO. Cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable (which is being spun off from Time Warner Inc., TIME's parent) are getting competition from all directions. As Brian Roberts put it in a speech that said as much about Comcast as it did about his industry, "There have been moments in time when cable has been at a major inflection point. This is one of those moments...
...offer a holistic solution to the problems of academic achievement, they do present a simple positive step that inner city schools can afford to do, both financially and practically. Any such attempt to change policy, however, should be accompanied by active engagement with the involved community. No parent should be surprised by the new clothing catalogs for school uniforms arriving in his or her mailbox. Rather, school boards must solicit input from faculty, staff and students such that the broader community can feel involved and invested in improving their neighborhood schools. While we recognize the elements of anachronism in mandating...
Federal loans aren't completely unaffected. While Stafford loans, which are made directly to students and don't take into account credit history, were up in the second quarter compared to a year ago, loans made to parents through the Parent PLUS program have plummeted - down 29% in dollar volume year-over-year, according to Department of Education data analyzed by Kantrowitz...
...certain way to win votes—that is, not as the former president of the Harvard Law Review.The irony is that the true American story is not just about facing obstacles, but triumphing over them. It’s not just about growing up in a single-parent family assisted by food stamps, but climbing the ranks at a premier law school. It’s not just about having spent fives years as a prisoner of war, but rising to become a powerful senator who’s spent decades in Washington. Unfortunately, though, we can?...
...influence the way you're looking at this election? We talk a great deal. I don't want to share his views, but he is passionate about politics and has a young man's wonderfully interesting take on the personalities that waltz through American history. But mostly, as any parent of a young man or young woman will tell you, his great impact on me is to introduce me to Arcade Fire, to play his music and explain his generation...