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...English professors said the new curriculum, after the department’s first major reform in over two decades, will be unlike any other they had researched. It will begin offering four common-ground courses in the fall, and a full selection of eight per semester in the spring. These courses will replace the required survey courses English 10a and 10b, the American literature requirement, and the sophomore tutorial...
...ensures that each dollar we spend reflects only our most important national priorities," Obama said on Tuesday night. The anticipated austerity of that budget, which will likely allow President George W. Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to lapse and include a road map for health-care reform, will look all the more severe when compared with the bloated 2009 numbers. And while the Obama Administration is turning a blind eye to the 2009 earmarks, White House officials say they fully expect Congress to live up to Obama's campaign pledge of reducing earmarks to below 1994 levels...
...designed and led by more than 20 trip organizers. These trips must all follow the Taglit-Birthright guidelines but differ slightly in certain activities and excursions. While the trips are open to anyone with Jewish heritage, there are specially designed trips that cater to those of the Orthodox or Reform persuasion, or those who just love to hike.The organization was founded in 2000 and, as of fall 2008, has sent nearly 200,000 young Jewish adults, 70 percent of whom are American, to Israel. The organization aims to encourage participants to form a strong personal connection with Israel, the Jewish...
...that slowly dipped over his two terms. Near the end of his second term, when the state suffered from a $2.5 billion deficit and one of the highest unemployment rates in the land, Locke declined to raise taxes, angering fellow Democrats. He also turned his back on promises to reform education, eliminating teacher raises and angering their union, who effectively "un-endorsed" him. Thousands of teachers later marched on the state capitol...
...entitlement summit was a conversational concerto, the budget speech was a full-blown symphony featuring a percussive series of simple declarative sentences that conveyed a sense of command, especially in the emotional heart of the speech, the section on banking reform. On corporate extravagance: "Those days are over." On the public anger over the bailouts: "I promise you - I get it." These were marshaled in the service of public education: Obama explained why, despite the despicable behavior of the bankers, the system had to be salvaged. If houses and cars were to be bought, if businesses were to make payrolls...