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After Thursday’s supreme court ruling, stating that President Obama’s healthcare law did not, in-fact violate the Constitution, Mitt Romney’s campaign receives a flood of donations. However, both presidential campaigns are citing fund-raising spikes following the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care reform laws. Obama’s campaign called the other side’s […]
Lest you thought the life of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, was a nonstop fairy tale of posh parties, gratis fashion and domestic bliss with Prince William, think again. Even duchesses can’t escape a bit of drama from the in-laws, according to new reports that Kate has gotten a bit of a demotion in regards to […]
Matching DNA samples, scientists and historians have been working to trace the ancestry of first lady Michelle Obama, which they have currently traced back to Northern Georgia. According to the New York Times, her ancestors were both slaves and the slave masters because of interracial couplings through the years. Her white relatives have been sent […]
These days tenure for teachers is such a brawl in America’s elementary and secondary schools that it’s easy to forget that it’s more a cornerstone of higher education. When Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, announced earlier this month that he was leaving the White House to return to the University of Chicago it was a reminder just how strong the ties — and inducements — of university tenure can be, and why it has recently come under fire. At colleges and universities, tenure basically bestows a job for life unless an institution runs out of money.
Earlier this year, the National Pork Board introduced its new slogan: “Be inspired.” It isn’t nearly as catchy as “the other white meat,” an earlier campaign that touted the health benefits of pork, but it did evoke something even higher and nobler. But nobility hardly describes the public image of the industry this week, and if consumers are inspired to do anything at all, it would be to stop eating pork entirely.
WOUNDED KNEE has been the catalyst,” says Donald White, an Oneida Indian who is a student at the University of Illinois.
Trapped on a swarming sector of Long Island where the backwash of Suburbia blurs into the edge of New York City, the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills is a green refuge from the crowded reality about it. Outside its high fences, the Long Island Rail Road rattles on its rounds and ordinary citizens endure the twice-daily war of commuting.
For the first two years of Barack Obama’s presidency, Mitch McConnell never got a phone call from the White House.
There are illegal immigrants on the loose in the Midwest. Originally hailing from Asia, they’re about 3 ft
In Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, the fortuneteller unfurls her skirts, hoists her bodice, strolls downstage and heckles the audience.