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...Dodd and Senator Joe Biden, another former Democratic presidential hopeful, both took solace in their respective committees upon their returns. Dodd, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, was immediately swamped by the subprime mortgage crisis. "I haven't had a moment to dwell on" the Presidential race, Dodd joked. Likewise, Biden, who heads up the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been busy with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, hosting General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker last month for hearings. "You could not pay me, under no circumstances would I want to be majority leader," Biden said with...
...Kennedy, who unsuccessfully challenged Jimmy Carter for President in 1980, channeled his energies into legislation upon his return to the Senate, becoming the most prodigious lawmaker of the past half-century. "There's a transition, obviously, moving from a candidate for the presidency back to the Senate, but I loved the Senate before I ran," Kennedy said. Like Kennedy, Clinton has had the advantage and curse of a high public profile since entering the Senate as a former First Lady in 2001. Returning to the Senate now after having won millions of votes and raised hundreds of millions of dollars...
Commencement season is upon us, when students across the nation make familiar pledges to go forth and change the world. The explosion of social networks on the Internet--Facebook users have affiliated with more than 80,000 causes--has emboldened them to believe their generation will make change. But does new technology make it more or less likely that young people today will commit themselves to do something for others...
...come to life in Bryan Andes and Miranda Critz's first-grade classes in New York City's Midtown West Public School 212. Eight years ago Andes and colleague Karl Heist initiated a family studies program for their kindergarten classes. The following year those students, now first graders, embarked upon a curriculum in which they explored a thriving industry in their neighborhood - restaurant row. Then, in 2005, Andes and Heist had a revelation. Why not add another curriculum geared toward the other industry that is a prominent part of the school's midtown Manhattan neighborhood: the theater...
...efforts of those who want to amend the U.S. and California constitutions to ban gay marriage, but for now it's enough to enjoy the court's bracingly simple money quote: "An individual's sexual orientation - like a person's race or gender - does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights." I just hope someone alerts the candidates for President...