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...political process. During the next few weeks, students around the country -- in grade schools, junior highs and high schools -- will be casting their votes on the candidates and major issues. Their ballots will be tabulated in a 90-minute TV special, to air Thursday, Oct. 29, on C-SPAN. The show, an unusual collaborative effort, will be produced by hbo and anchored by CNN's Susan Rook. Though it won't be a scientific poll, the results could be an important bellwether: in 1988, 3 1/2 million votes were cast, and they accurately picked the winner (George Bush), even...
This year, the center's research theme is "Character and Competence: Successful Development across the Life Span." Murray Center faculty are focusing their studies on how people change for the better over the course of their lives...
Wright's life-span alone is astonishing: his career extended from the beginning of the Gilded Age to the last days of the American Century, from the sod house to the shopping mall. Born in rural Wisconsin to a charming, feckless musician-preacher and a high-strung, single-minded mother -- they divorced when Frank was a teenager -- Wright was inculcated with an overweening sense of his talent and destiny. Anna Wright may have been the first atelier mother: she pushed him hard to become an architect when he was still a child, providing a special set of designer-in-training...
Newsweek said its spotlighted elitists are "as different as the nation itself." The Harvard representatives span the spectrum of the select...
Although the Mather forward's goal tied the game for a brief span, it was just not enough: Huskie freshman Sarah Rahn marked the game winner with 7:34 left in the match...