Word: holt
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...Henry Holt...
...debate and force a floor vote. In the House, Democratic gains will leave Republicans with a nominal majority of five to 12 seats, depending on who ends up winning races like the one in New Jersey where ballots are still being counted and 178 votes separate Democrat Rush Holt and his Republican challenger, Dick Zimmer...
...their crimes without ruining their children's lives. The fate of these children has great consequences for society. Half of the 1.5 million kids with an incarcerated parent will commit a crime before they turn 18. "We're creating a new crop that gets bigger each generation," says Anne Holt, a consultant for Florida's Department of Corrections...
...book out this fall, Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education (Henry Holt), Indiana University professor Murray Sperber compares the American university of 2000 with Rome circa A.D. 100. To keep the populace happy, corrupt Emperors used bread and circuses. In the modern university, administrators use beer and circuses--or Division I athletics and the binge drinking that accompanies it--to distract students from their crowded lecture classes and inattentive professors. Sperber argues that the ncaa, the advertisers who profit from college sports and the Animal House undergrads are all complicit in the deteriorating quality...
DIED. BERTHA HOLT, 96, children's advocate whose missionary-like crusade to adopt war orphans resulted in a 1955 law allowing Americans to adopt more children internationally; in Creswell, Ore. Devout Baptists, Holt and her husband adopted eight Korean children left abandoned by U.S. soldiers and founded a respected international adoption agency...