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...thought of not voting think they should come out and make a statement," he said. Having sworn off the money that would have funded a sophisticated media campaign, Feingold doesn't have much more to lean on. Last week he made a campaign stop at Robinson Elementary School in Beloit, Wis. Fewer than 20 people attended--some local party officials, a few teachers and a handful of kids whose parents were late to pick them up. Standing in front of the school, Feingold spoke for 10 minutes on his plans for reducing class sizes; a few more listeners trickled...
...retired schoolteacher from Janesville: "I'm really angry about the Congress wanting to cut taxes when we have a debt like this. We are so much better off than anybody in the world. I just don't think it would hurt us to not cut taxes right now." In Beloit-the Democratic section of the district that Neumann did not carry-the sentiment was even more heated. "You've been voting to hurt other people," said Bill Hallstrom, a Beloit engineer. "You voted for a tax cut for the rich-you're giving them a break at the expense...
...Beloit, WI and Dunster House...
...This is much more a spontaneous explosion of the needs of people who are committed to a certain politics to...get together," said Danny Postel, a senior philosophy major at Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., who helped organize the event...
...Evansville in Indiana. Many schools have begun to nudge older professors out the door with a variety of enticements. Johns Hopkins University decided three years ago to increase the basic pension payments of departing 65-year-olds by 20% to 30% -- a bonus that shrinks the longer they stay. Beloit College in Wisconsin has a program that eases professors into retirement while younger colleagues, with whom they are paired as mentors, are phased into full-time teaching positions...