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Moreover, even with the federal stimulus money, school districts will still get the bulk of their funding from state and local coffers, which haven't been this low in decades. As Randall Moody, manager of federal advocacy for the National Education Association, says, "When you have 40 states with serious budget issues and that's where schools get the bulk of their money, naturally there's going to be a problem...
...Yale has some talented low post players, and Columbia is a good young team. Penn is young, but looked like a serious threat in the Ivies after some strong play early...
...former Ph.D. dissertation advisor, said Farmer uses his awards “for publicity for the organization and to increase funding,” as he did when he received the $100,000 Austin College Leadership Award in 2007. “Farmer proves that you can do serious research and advocacy as well as having deep values about social justice that inform your research and that also inform practical programme development and clinical work,” said Kleinman, a fellow faculty member in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine...
...shrink the spending in the package as much as she had demanded. When she got there, however, she was surprised to discover White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who had come to make a deal. "It was as if all of a sudden they had decided to get serious with the negotiations," she says. "They agreed on the bottom line of our proposal, which was $780 billion...
...Islamabad proclaims the steps as proof of its bona fides in cracking down on terrorism. "I think today's announcement reflects our seriousness in bringing the perpetrators to justice," Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistan's Foreign Minister, told TIME. "It is a testimony to what we've been saying, that we're serious about the investigation. What was given to us was fairly sketchy - but through our own investigations, we've been able to act. The Indian High Commissioner was called in today, and we handed in our investigation. We have shared it with our friends abroad, the European Union, China...