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...change in priorities based on the school's spring 2006 college tour. Five years ago, they just did the northeast. This year the group, after visiting a campus or two in New York, split into two parts. The first went south to University of Richmond, Davidson, William and Mary, and George Washington. "People are starting to understand that a lot of the Southern schools in general are great," she says. The second broke north into Canada to visit McGill University in Montreal and the University of Toronto. Cuseo calls Canada "the new frontier...
...occurred. Walking slowly from the back of the hall toward the stage came a gentle giant of a man, his 1.9-m bulk wrapped around a hollowed tree trunk into which he breathed. Sculthorpe's music at once expanded, evoking the spaciousness and soaring skies of the Australian Outback; William Barton's didgeridoo was the heartbeat...
...health-care proposals with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the Clintons' nemesis in their 1994 effort to reform health care. One of her closest friends in the chamber is South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, who came to national attention as one of the House managers of the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton...
...William Johnstone, a staff member of the 9/11 Commission and author of the 2006 book 9/11 and the Future of Transportation Security, says that since 9/11 "the privatized security and the federal screeners have performed as well as or as badly as the other. To Mr. Argenbright's point, 9/11 was a systemic flaw bigger than the failure of some screeners. Part of federalizing was to reassure the public that security was better. It was worth it for the public to know a major break had been made from the past...
...canceled flights, on BAA, the airport operator, which they claim wasn't up to the job of handling the big increase in security. "Since 9/11, everyone in the industry has known there might be times when extra security measures needed to be put in place," British Airway chief executive William Walsh said this week. "Yet when the moment struck, BAA had no plan ready to keep Heathrow functioning properly. The queues for security have wound all round the terminals like a bad dream at Disneyland." The airlines are currently considering whether to seek compensation from BAA or the British government...