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...Going back to the beginning of the Republic, and Jefferson’s view that virtue and talent were sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, the contribution of education—and especially higher education—to equality of opportunity has been a central concern,” Summers said...
...looking for a case study in how a government can fail the health needs of its people, Burma is a good place to start. The seeds of the country's problems were sown long ago, and Maung, 45, knows them well. A member of Burma's Karen ethnic minority, which has fought a simmering half-century war for independence, she grew up in a region that had never been quite at peace. She kept her head down long enough to make it to the capital, Yangon (then known as Rangoon), where she attended medical school in the mid-1980s, then...
...Delphic utterances that have become legend with Greenspan. His wife, NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell, has joked that he proposed twice before she understood what he was saying. After tongue-twisting comments by Greenspan to the Economic Club in New York City in 1995, headlines reflected the confusion he had sown. GREENSPAN HINTS FED MAY CUT INTEREST RATES, read the Washington Post. DOUBTS VOICED BY GREENSPAN ON A RATE CUT, said the New York Times. But the Maestro was clear about one thing: "Since becoming a central banker I have learned to mumble with great incoherence," he said...
Although the solid senior class of Stefanchik, Sabin, co-captain Lauren Bettinelli, first baseman Cecily Gordon, and catcher Annie Dell’Aria represents the only group during Allard’s tenure to depart without an Ivy title, the seeds were sown in 2005 for a ripe future with the young guns left behind...
Curt Schilling had the tendon in his right foot move around more than Manny Ramirez did in Game 1, was essentially ruled out for the rest of the playoffs, then shut down the Yankees in Game 6 with the skin of his leg sown down to the tissue underneath...