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With the health-care debate essentially on hiatus during Congress' final week of recess, Obama's back-to-school speech to America's children, scheduled to air at noon E.T. Tuesday, on C-Span and Whitehouse.gov., became a tempest in an empty news cycle - or at least the letter from the Department of Education announcing the speech did. The missive urged principals and teachers to have their students write letters to themselves about how they could assist the President, a request that some saw as an attempt to inject politics into the classroom. Jim Greer, Florida's GOP party chairman...
...some other parts of the country, Grassley's constituents turned out by the thousands to tell him how little they thought of his efforts back in Washington. One sign in the small town of Adel read "Thank God Patrick Henry Did Not Compromise." Over the course of the recess, Grassley began sounding less like a potential Obama ally and more like the enemy army. When the Iowa Senator actually gave credence to the absurd notion that the House version of the legislation might allow the government to decide when, in his words, to "pull the plug on Grandma," Democrats decided...
...This year, the official J-Term runs from Jan. 4 to Jan. 24, according to FAS registrar’s office Web site. Winter recess begins Dec. 22 this year...
...This is the first academic year that the College faces an extended break between fall and spring semesters. Interim University President Derek Bok created the month long gap when he approved a new University calendar that moved final exams to before the winter recess...
...death does seem to have brought about a temporary cease-fire, with at least one group that opposes the bill suspending its television advertising. But when Congress returns to Washington in September, few doubt that the war will resume with even greater force in the wake of an August recess that has seen dozens of town-hall meetings disrupted by raucous protests...