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Obama's high-speed rail: 'This is America'
The Swampby Ben Meyerson President Barack Obama announced his plan for developing high-speed rail in America this morning, detailing how $13 billion in federal money could act as a "down payment" on bringing the nation's passenger trains up to par with......Tags: Transportation, Railway Transportation, Barack Obama, Government, National Government
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And away we go...
E-Boland and the BombersWell, I???ll start by acknowledging the obvious: the picture in the upper left hand corner of this blog is a significant downgrade from what was there before. That I can???t help. Kat O???Brien, now at the prestigious Wharton School of......Tags: Derek Jeter, Johnny Damon, Alex Rodriguez, Symptoms
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Obama: Republican Chinese ambassador
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated President Barack Obama this morning nominated Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, a Republican who has served Ronald Reagan and the two Bush administrations and also helped Obama's Republican rival campaign for the White House, to serve........Tags: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Republican Party, China, Civil Rights
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Sarah Palin: Obama's healthcare 'evil'
The Swampby Mark Silva Sarah Palin is back. After a brief respite from Twritter and all the rest, the early-self-retired-resigned-withdrawn-bowed-out governor of Alaska has returned to Facebook. With fire: Calling President Barack Obama's healthcare reform...Tags: Facebook, Local Elections, Ronald Reagan, Productivity, Euthanasia
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USAID's new leader: 10 months in
The Swampby Mark Silva Months ago, when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made her rounds of the State Department to voice her commitment to new diplomacy, she also stopped at the U.S. Agency for International Development to voice her commitment to......Tags: Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Ted Turner, Schools, Charity
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Baltimore artist on Bravo's coming 'Work of Art' competition
Reality CheckBravo is expanding its vocation competition to include artists: On June 9, "Work of Art" premieres, and among the contestants is 23-year-old Abdi Farah, an artist hailing from Baltimore. Here is his Bravo bio:At the young age of 23, Abdi is......Tags: Maryland, Television Industry, Television, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Arts
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Obama's deficit-cutters: Lineup named
The Swampby Mark Silva The lineup for the deficit-cutting commission that President Barack Obama has created is starting to take shape. The president's front line includes David Cote, CEO of Honeywell International, and Alice Rivlin, a fomer White House Office of....Tags: Harvard University, Kent Conrad, Management Change, Charity, Political Fundraising
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MarksJarvis: Financial literacy programs well worth the time
It's Money Smart Week, a collection of free financial literacy programs offered throughout the week, aimed at helping people deal with virtually every money issue imaginable: from how to get out of debt, to buying homes, paying for college, building a...Tags: Mortgages, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, George Washington University, Housing and Urban Planning, Fannie Mae
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Cost of MBA teaches tough financial lesson
Joe Mihalic wasn't thinking at all about how he was going to pay off student loans — which would end up totaling $101,000 — when he was accepted to Harvard Business School.
"I assumed all would take care of itself; that I would go to Harvard,...Tags: Finance, Students, Teaching and Learning, Loans, Awards and Prizes
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Out of Africa and into the Ivy League
Parents often flock to books dispensing advice about how to rear children who possess both the social skills to be well liked among their peers and the academic chops to make it to the Ivy League. Hyde Park residents Grayson Kachingwe and Donna...
Tags: Family, Malawi, Satellite Technology, Isaac Asimov, Schools
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What Abraham Lincoln learned from Richard III
Viewed from the American side of the water, the fanfare about the discovery of the bones of the last Plantagenet monarch probably seems a bit quaint. Having determined that the remains found in Leicester, U.K., a few months back are indeed those of...
Tags: Mahmoud Abbas, Elizabeth II, George W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Laurence Olivier
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Hidden side of Obama's race gap
In his 2008 "A More Perfect Union" speech, presidential candidate Barack Obama declared, "Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now." Then he tried his best to ignore it. At least in public, that is. It says a lot...
Tags: Polls, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Racism, Ronald Reagan, Jeremiah Wright
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