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...think the media are to blame for all the accusations of impropriety. Doing something that may be seen as trendy is not always a bad thing. Madonna's action will hopefully encourage others to adopt orphan children who might otherwise have very grim lives. Richard M. Valenci Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, U.S. As a mother, I shuddered to read Madonna's pathetically low benchmark for motherhood: "Even if I'm the worst mother in the world, I'm better than death!" The comment was insensitive and reeked of arrogance. While Madonna's giving huge sums of money to charity is laudable...
...while the paycheck for Harvard’s president has grown considerably in recent years, it’s still substantially lower than the pay given to other Ivy League leaders. The presidents of Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown, Cornell, Yale, and Princeton all earned more than Harvard’s chief in 2004-2005, according to the Chronicle’s annual report on presidential salaries released last week...
Among the presumed candidates for Harvard’s presidency who were paid significantly more than Summers in 2004-2005 are Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson, who earned $983,365; University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71, who earned $767,030; and Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, who earned...
...high ground she lost with her endorsement of Murtha, who said he thought her reform measures were "total crap." It was bad enough that Murtha's candidacy turned the cable-news networks into a film festival of the grainy tapes from the Abscam sting in 1980, in which the Pennsylvania Congressman told an agent posing as an Arab sheik that he couldn't be bribed "at this point." But on ethics reforms or any other tough issues that lawmakers like to publicly support and privately fight, Pelosi might now lack the backroom clout needed to get results. "When key votes...
...those are just two of many theories floating around. Noting the victories of Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland and Pennsylvania Senate candidate Bob Casey, both of whom frequently discussed their faith, Jim Wallis, a liberal Christian minister who has advised Democrats to emphasize their religious values, wrote on his blog "when Democrats take a more morally sensible and centrist position on issues like abortion, they do better than liberal Democrats have done...