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...Sarah Huckabee is down-to-earth and hardworking, regularly putting in 90-hour weeks. After leaving her job with the Education Department in Washington, she has spent the past year directing field operations for her father's campaign. (One of her two older brothers also works for the campaign, in Little Rock, Ark.) Six weeks ago, she moved to Des Moines to be her father's eyes and ears on the ground in Iowa. "There is a degree of trust between them that is very special," says Eric Woolson, who runs the Huckabee campaign in the state...
After Woo spent nearly six years pulling herself out of homelessness and addiction, her enrollment at Harvard could be seen as her happy ending. But she is still writing her story...
...responsible for paying ten percent of their income, which is not even half the cost of a full tuition. My gut tells me that it is a lot of money, earned by a small percentage of the populace, and that it is money that could surely be better spent. But given the average price of attending a private school it is hard to argue against any sort of financial aid. Then, on an open-list, I read a seemingly valid argument against giving such aid to the upper middle classes. The argument goes something like this: Families earning...
...teams grew almost exponentially from period to period. After a quiet opening frame in which it was whistled for just two minor penalties, the Crimson committed 12 minutes’ worth of penalties in the second period and a whopping 34 in the third. The Eagles, for their part, spent eight minutes in the box in the first period, 10 in the second, and 18 in the third, for a total of 76 penalty minutes between the two teams. Frustration seemed to play a major role in the escalation of penalties, as a series of fights in the third period...
...watched several of them who had successful postdocs and spent several years doing so,” Peyerl says. “They were struggling to find faculty positions, and this is after five years in a Howard Hughes...