Word: vermonter
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...advisor to several U.S. presidents, Rockefeller dealt with issues concerning ecology and environmental preservation. He founded the American Conservation Association, and funded the expansion of Grand Teton National Park. In 1991, Rockefeller was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his effots. In 1992 he and his wife donated their Vermont home to the National Park Service; it was later turned into the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, a museum dedicated to the history of environmental conservation. Rockefeller died...
...vote, the point is the message,” he said. “I’d be lucky to get one percent of the vote.” Jaccaci has run for public office before, winning just under one percent of the vote in the Vermont gubernatorial elections of 1992 and 1994. Winning one percent in 2008, however, will be a little bit harder. If voter turnout equals that of 2004, Jaccaci will need to convince 1.2 million Americans that it’s time to give the third president a third term. —Aliza...
...rode the T to Agannis to see just how great a tournament could be.The America East not only held the first few rounds of its tournament in Boston, it is very comparable to the Ivy League. Harvard played five teams in the America East, beating Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont in its best win of the year, while losing to BU and Albany. The America East went 11-6 against Ivy League opponents this past season, while the Ivy League winner has generally received a slightly higher seed in the past five NCAA Tournaments. So I settled down on press...
...three teams of the Championship ranked in the exact same order as last week, with Dartmouth taking first and beating out the University of Vermont and Middlebury. The Crimson’s 10th-place finish also mirrored last week’s results...
...Indeed, Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has already indicated he will step up his bid on behalf of a bill that would restore detainees' legal rights. Such a bill, introduced by Leahy and then-Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., narrowly failed to pass last year...