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...might be argued that former Vermont Governor Howard Dean also passed the Bennett test, but he only did so under duress. He was asked about a quote from 1996, in which he heaped slag upon the Children's Defense Fund's founder, Marian Wright Edelman, for being one of those "liberals" who wrongly opposed the welfare-reform bill. He retracted the slag--Edelman, a study in demure imperiousness, was seated in the front row--but not the sentiment. He said he embraced welfare reform in Vermont and implied that he did it better than Clinton. But then, to hear Dean...
...history of cities—political, artistic, economic, cultural—often plays an extremely direct role in their current problems. Historical Studies B considers specific historical movements, and a course on Utopia in the Machine Age would involve discussions of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and their visions for the city. Physical science (Science A) is at the heart of architecture, and biological science (Science B) also has an undeniably important role, from the psychological implications of space to the ecological impacts of different types of land use. I am not concerned with the so-called...
...might be argued that former Vermont Governor Howard Dean also passed the Bennett test, but he only did so under duress. He was asked about a quote from 1996, in which he heaped slag upon the Children's Defense Fund's founder, Marian Wright Edelman, for being one of those "liberals" who wrongly opposed the welfare-reform bill. He retracted the slag - Edelman, a study in demure imperiousness, was seated in the front row - but not the sentiment. He said he embraced welfare reform in Vermont and implied that he did it better than Clinton. But then, to hear Dean...
During his sophomore year of high school, his aunt, the well-known activist and president of the Children’s Defense Fund Marian Wright Edelman, called him up and asked him to help her organize a huge demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial called Stand for Children...
...smooth as a baby's bottom: Grandma could be sitting up there sipping lemonade," he said later. He half didn't believe it--until the tracking crew ran up and reported hearing the world's first sonic boom, a sound that marked the end of the Wright Brothers' era and the beginning of the age of the astronauts, taking humankind into outer space. His XS-1 had accelerated to Mach 1.06, or 700 m.p.h. That night Yeager fixed his buddies a pitcher of martinis to celebrate. But the world would have to wait to learn of Yeager's feat...