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...place candidate on the edge of the first tier-John Edwards and Mitt Romney. There's a big jump down to the next tier of declared candidates, none of whom seem to have much of a chance. And there is a possible late entry (Al Gore) or two (Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich), any of whom would join the first tier...
...support as Giuliani entered the race and took a commanding lead in the polls, approaching 40% a couple of months ago. Now he's fallen back. Today Giuliani is in the lead at about 27%, with McCain at about 21%, followed by Romney and the two not-yet-candidates, Thompson and Gingrich, at about...
...University President Derek C. Bok, who was a driving force behind the center’s creation in the 1980s. After presiding over a vigorous question-and-answer session with Sen and other panelists, the center’s outgoing director, Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis F. Thompson, expressed disappointment that the panel could not go on longer. “I’m eager to continue the argument with each of them,” he said. Among the panelists—all former fellows of the center—were University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann...
...traveler, meeting cultures that his creator encountered only in books and magazines. Over the course of the books (Hergé would call them albums), Tintin acquired a panoply of colorful companions: his faithful dog Snowy; his hard-drinking, foul-mouthed friend Captain Haddock; egghead Professor Calculus; bumbling detectives the Thompson Twins; and overbearing opera diva Bianca Castafiore...
...many teachers are torn when it comes to Turnitin. "How do you reconcile this [service] with a place that's trying to presume honor?" asks Bob Thompson, Duke University's vice provost for undergraduate education. Duke, which recently endured a cheating scandal at its business school, no longer uses Turnitin--in part because it did not like adding to the company's database--and this spring expanded its honor code by obligating students to take action if they observe or hear about cheating. "We will truly lose the battle if we think we're going to fight technology with technology...