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...Social Grants Act authorized a pilot program to be launched during reading period last semester, but Iyer said the program was sidelined because the UC had its hands full with other projects...
...bellwether for voter attitudes towards the President and his policies, and the results are not encouraging for Obama: McDonnell, 55, entered election day with a double-digit lead. McDonnell, who campaigned on a platform of job creation and low taxes, may have even greater things ahead: The Virginian-Pilot newspaper has gone as far as to put him on a short list of vice presidential candidates for 2012. (See pictures of the world's reaction to Obama's presidential victory...
...ride a horse?" Earhart responds when George Putnam (Richard Gere) - her future manager, publisher and husband - asks why she wants to fly. When he first proposes marriage, she demurs, telling him, "I want to be free, George, to be a vagabond of the air." To a bleary-eyed pilot who questions her decision to take to the skies in dicey weather, she says, "I'm as serious as you are hungover." Earhart may well have said all these things, but you wish the filmmakers had been bold enough to let their heroine sound like a real person now and again...
...plans to gather a coalition of student group leaders to present proposals for pilot J-term programs in 2011, according to UC Student Life Committee Chair Senan Ebrahim...
...project included a number of educational programs, including small workshops with Harvard undergraduates. In the five years thereafter, the project’s scope expanded to include programs in Chicago and New York City middle schools.The program in New York, called Silk Road Connect, intensifies a pilot program first implemented in Chicago in 2007. The program was motivated by troubling statistics that connected a lack of academic interest in middle school with low college graduation rates, says Laura Freid, executive director of the Silk Road Project. Silk Road Connect seeks to inspire “passion-driven learning?...