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There's plenty of outrage these days over how much people are paying for college and what they're getting - or not getting - out of it. Last August, for example, a graduate of Monroe College in New York City sued the for-profit school for the $70,000 she spent on tuition because she felt the school didn't equip her with the vocational skills to land...
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...assistant in Arizona, says she spends up to 40 hours per week in her capacity as president of the Tea Party Patriots of Scottsdale, which has divided itself into committees - including a finance team and a research and investigative unit - to spread its message and vet candidates. "We're trying to compete with the left. They've got a shotgun, and we've got a little BB gun," she says. (See pictures of Tea Party protests...
...re going to see a lot of these Tea Partyers mobilizing in the fall," predicts Ned Ryun, president of American Majority, a group that trains Tea Party organizations in tactics ranging from fundraising and campaign planning to social networking and voter registration. "They're fired up. They're going to do the grunt work and be the get-out-the-vote people...
...which would violate the 501(c)(4) stipulation that political campaigns not be such a group's primary purpose, activists like Mandile are taking the long view - preaching civic engagement and educating people about candidates' positions and constitutional principles. "I don't like to focus entirely on November. We're going to lose early battles, and we have lost some," he says. "We're encouraging change at the very local level - in cities, in towns." The goal, he adds, is to "create a farm team, so that four or six years from now, we have people with experience...