Word: pennsylvania
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...goal in mind now for Nyamekye and the Crimson team is the Ancient Eight championship, a prize that is at their fingertips following Brown’s loss to the University of Pennsylvania over the weekend...
...interview with the Wall Street Journal, University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71 explained that “the Sputnik era didn’t come because a lot of idealists said we had to be better. It came because there were idealists as there are today who said we’re in trouble as a country, we have to compete against the Russians. We have to compete today against the Chinese and Indians who are graduating tens of thousands more very talented science, math, and engineering graduates from their colleges.” The success...
...year, Democratic strategists on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue have made no secret of the fact that they do not view time as their friend on enacting health reform, a goal that has eluded every President since Harry Truman who has attempted it. At one point, Democrats hoped to have the bill passed by both houses over the summer and on Obama's desk in the fall. Instead, the August recess was dominated by cable-television images of near riots at congressional town-hall meetings, and it took a dramatic, game-changing presidential address to a joint session of Congress...
...reality-TV era has unstable behavior become a valid career choice. Only now are questionable parenting decisions the stuff of a lucrative family business. Say whatever you want about Jon and Kate Gosselin, their divorce proceedings entail numbers with a lot more zeroes than your typical young Pennsylvania family encounters...
...Succeeding is going to take all the smarts that earned the Brooklyn-born son of an exterminator a 1600 on his college SATs and the political wiles that, as head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, helped him recruit pro-life, pro-gun Democratic candidates such as Pennsylvania's Bob Casey and Jim Webb of Virginia. For the past month, Schumer has been directing a full-court press on the public option, cajoling Reid both in private and in public. "I believe Leader Reid is leaning strongly to putting a level-playing-field, state-opt-out public option...