Word: wirt
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Ithaca high school physics teacher Steve Wirt gets e-mail from parents regularly, some from moms and dads he believes might otherwise not pick up the phone with a concern. Using software called Blackboard CourseInfo, designed to make website building intuitive for teachers, Wirt conducts online chats with his students, often reviewing for a quiz or discussing homework problems...
Sometimes just being there assures success. Janet Reno became the nation's second-longest-serving attorney general on Monday, logging in five years and 10 months and coming in behind only William Wirt, who put in 11 years and three months in the administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams. "I don't know that she's become the second-longest-serving atorney general because she's been the second most distinguished," says TIME writer Adam Cohen. She's survived "mostly because she has been the beneficiary of the fact that it has been too awkward for Clinton...
...down in history as the attorney general who actually approved the appointment of more independent counsels than any other: seven, to investigate various administration figures. Moreover, one of those independent counsels, Kenneth Starr, has become the first one to trigger the impeachment trial of a president. Beat that, William Wirt...
Compromises such as that of only seeking on-campus advertisers would not only marginalize public-school newspapers, as Daily Editor-in-Chief Keesia D. Wirt has said, but they may also financially cripple these newspapers, allowing rivals like the Tribune to monopolize the market...
...Everything we have, they can now get to," Wirt said, explaining that the Tribune can now view a Daily advertising contract and then offer the advertiser a lower rate...