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According to the press release, "Harvard continues to devote major institutional funds to undergraduate financial aid--more than $52 million in direct grants in 1999-2000--so that a Harvard College education remains affordable for students from every socio-economic background...
Bush's crime platform is based on a "tough love" philosophy. He supports the death penalty and wants to strengthen juvenile crime sentences and sentences for gun offenses. Bush also supports limited forms of gun control, such as gun show background checks and banning guns in school areas. But he is a proponent of the right to carry concealed weapons...
...background is conducive to the electorate's desire for an honorable president is beyond question, even for his Republican opponents. But McCain has been criticized for the maverick status that has propelled him to early primary victories. His opponents have said he is too quick to compromise ideologically and has harmed the Republican party by making it appear more divided than...
...baton. "Clock. Hiccup. Clapping," chirps a staccato chorus of first-graders. Lest she get sidetracked, a kitchen timer cues her to move on after one minute. Broadus, a phys.-ed. teacher for 29 years, had no training in reading instruction prior to Success for All. "I had no background," she laughs. "And with this program, I had no choice." The rigor apparently pays off at test time. In a three-year University of Memphis study of local Success for All schools, scores surged past state averages. At Anthony Bowen School, administrators say the scores of more than...
...rest of us, Green, a free-lance writer, spent the next day scouring the Internet and calling courthouses in the San Diego area, where the TV groom, Rick Rockwell, lived. The producers of Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? supposedly had done their own check of Rockwell's background, and he had come up clean. But after a court employee suggested that Green try the Los Angeles area, he and his partner William Bastone, an investigative reporter for the Village Voice, stumbled on a 1991 restraining order filed by Debbie Goyne against her former fiance Rick Rockwell. "On several...