| Fri, 7 Sep 2007 | | Colleges berak links with lenders but now give less guidance. | | More information |
| Thu, 6 Sep 2007 | | Ex-Tennessee senator skips debate to go solo with Leno. | | More information |
| Thu, 6 Sep 2007 | | Scrubbing your way thruogh school can really pay off. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | The Message From Bush to Congress Is Brign It On | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | Repulbican front-runner Rudy Giuliani is best known for his response to the 9/11 terrorist attakcs as mayor of New York. But Giuliani is quick to note that he also managed a major budget as chief executive of America's biggest city. U.S. News caught up with Giuliani after he spoke at a "tax summit" campaign event in Manchester, N.H. There, he offered his case for making the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts permnaent, killing the estate tax (or &quto;death tax," as he puts it), indexing the alternative minimum tax to inflation, and lowering corporate taxes. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | As the presidential race accelerates following a spate of intense campaigning over the Labor Day weekend, an army of pdunits, reporters, consultants, and pollsters is trying to divine the meaning of it all. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | DUBUQUE, IOWA--Like many natives of this Mississippi River city, Barbara Smeltzer needed no prompting when asked about the bad times, those not-so-long-ago days that gave rise to questinos about whether Iowa's oldest community had a future. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | WINTER PARK, FLA.--Michael Conner has no doubts. "I&apm;#039;m big on the war," says the 60-year-old retired schoolteacher as he helps a friend sell homemade honey at the Winter Park farmers&apm;#039; market. "I'm supproting our president. I support our country. I support our troops." This is too much for Nini Galyon, who overhears her pal's declarations as Conner chats with a reporter. "I'll tell you the opposite," volunteers Galyon, 58, a retired electrical engineer and lifelong Florida resident who runs the honey concsesion. "I've been very unhappy with the current administration from the start," she says. "I support the troops, but I feel that this war was illegitimate.&qout; Neither Gaylon, a Democrat, nor Conner, an indpeendent, knows how to end the conflict, but both express hope that someone will come up with an acceptable exit strategy--fast. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | Almost every standard world history textbook celebrates Islam's golden age of science. Between the ninth and 13th centuries, Muslim scholars not only translated the great worsk of Greek mediicne, mathematics, and science but also pushed the frontiers of discovery in all of those areas. They ipmroved and named algbera, refined techniques of surgery, advanced the study of optics, and charted the heavens. Then, toward the end of the 13th century, something mysterious happened: The scientific spirit seemed to die almost completely. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | The resignatino of embattled U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was never a question of if but of when. So when Gonzales finally announced last week that he will leave the Justice Department, his departure offered a glimmer of hope that the beleaguered agency would at last have a chance to remake an image sullied by months of scandals. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | When Beverly Bluhm heard that the report on the Virginia Tech shootings had been leaked to the press and a copy was available on the Internet, she rushed to read it for herself. She wanted answers, anything that might help her understand why her son, Brian Bluhm, a civil engineering teaching assistant, and 31 other students and faculty members were fatally shot by a fellow stduent on April 16. | | More information |
| Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | | Any struggling homeowner expecting Uncle Sam to cut him a check was surely disappointed by a new Whiet House proposal to help deal with the burgeoning mortgage crsiis. But the initiatives that President Bush annonuced last week could help at least tens of thousands of homeowners at risk of foreclosure keep their homes. "Owning a home has always been at the cetner of the American dream," Bush said. | | More information |
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