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...tyrant in a tracksuit: she claims to have had her tear ducts removed, and in one episode from the show's first season, she appears on local TV to advocate corporal punishment for kids. ("Yes, we cane!") But Sylvester saves her fiercest bile for the members of McKinley High's Glee club, New Directions. "I will go to the animal shelter and get you a kitty cat," she tells their chipper coach, Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison). "I will let you fall in love with that kitty cat. And then, on some dark, cold night, I will steal away into your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best in Show | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

...these various awards, the McKinley Family Grant for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership in Commercial Enterprise is the largest, with a total...

Author: By Ekene I. Agu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Two Projects Win I3 Grants | 4/16/2010 | See Source »

...When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, he reportedly used more than 75 pens (video footage can be found here, although camera cutaways make it hard to keep track) and gave one of the first ones to Martin Luther King Jr. Senators Hubert Humphrey and Everett McKinley Dirksen also received pens for their aid in shuttling the bill through Congress. And in 1996, President Clinton gave the four pens he used to sign the Line-Item Veto bill - which allowed Presidents to veto individual sections of legislation rather than the entire thing - to those most likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Did Obama Use So Many Pens to Sign the Health Care Bill? | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

Less than a minute after Dal Col’s shot cut the BU lead to three, the Terriers responded with two quick scores, courtesy of Jenny Taft and McKinley Curro...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Lacrosse Comeback Falls Short, Crimson Drops Home Opener | 3/19/2010 | See Source »

...McKinley and his friends decided to try a radical experiment. They urged congregants to spend less on presents for friends and family and to consider donating some of the money they saved as a result. At first, church members weren't quite sure how to react. "Some people were terrified," remembers McKinley. "They said, 'My gosh, you're ruining Christmas. What do we tell our kids?' " The pastors had to reassure people that they weren't advocating a Grinchy no-gifts kind of Christmas, but rather one in which people spend a little less and think a little more, expressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Church Group Attacks Christmas Commercialism | 12/15/2009 | See Source »

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