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...Yankee Doodle” to “The Star Spangled Banner,” the former which she describes as representative of an American impulse and the latter as an attempt to aspire to the seriousness of European heritage. “Only focusing on Longfellow, Whitman, Fitzgerald, and the litany of familiar figures is to me ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ approach,” Miller says. “I feel that this book is more of a ‘Yankee Doodle’ approach, a book that people really care about...
...gargantuan water-sharing agreement that could help prevent the state from running dry. And his potential successors are also formidable go-getters with forward-thinking credentials - including former governor and current attorney general Jerry Brown, golden-boy San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. Brown, the early front runner, was widely mocked as Governor Moonbeam back in the 1970s, but some of his ideas - including energy efficiency, as well as the emergency-communications satellite that inspired his nickname - no longer seem so flaky. (Download a PDF on California's industries, labs and technologies...
...WHITMAN COLLEGE Sliced $20 from each student's free-printing allotment...
...public-financing system, limiting the amount he can spend to $11 million, though the Republican National Committee and Republican Governor's Association are already investing heavily in the race. New Jersey, usually a solidly Democratic state, has not elected a Republican statewide in 12 years, when Christine Todd Whitman won her second term. Obama took the state with 57% of the vote in 2008, and Corzine was elected governor with 54% of the vote...
With its registration levels near normal, Camp Walt Whitman is one of the lucky ones. Across the country, camps have reported drops of 10% to 20% in enrollment. Parents are also opting to send their kids for shorter periods. (Read "The Meaning of Summer Camp...