Margin of Excellence third year should be funded
Editorial urges Kansas legislators to prioritize continuing the Margin of Excellence in higher education despite tight state finances. It argues the program raises faculty salaries and strengthens programs, underpinning university quality and long term state prosperity, and warns partial funding and delayed promises risk undoing two years of progress.
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Kansas Board of Regents
Kansas House
Kansas University
Congress debates commemorative bills and tap dance day
The article notes Congress passed 436 commemorative resolutions in 1989, with 85 signed into law. It criticizes many of these noncontroversial bills for designating special days while urging lawmakers to focus on substantial laws. Rep. Fred Upton campaigns to curb such legislation amid broader debate.
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U.S
Congress
Fred Upton
R-Mich
Milestones and Nobel Peace Prize anniversaries today
A look back across history on this date December 10 includes MLK Jr receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 1964, Theodore Roosevelt earning the prize in 1906, Jane Addams and Ralph Bunche as laureates, and other notable events from 1520 to 1983 such as Emily Dickinson’s birth and Wyoming voting rights.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Oslo
Norway
Martin Luther
Mississippi
Emily Dickinson
Amherst
Mass
Wyoming Territory
Paris
Theodore Roosevelt
Reconciliation bill dominates late Congress edition
In a witty take, the writer chronicles Parts II to IV of Congress’s late session Record No 165 detailing the reconciliation bill. He notes its breadth from budget fixes to revamped terms, awards to legislators, costs for space ventures, and cuts to medical payments, ending with a toast to reconciliation and Congress.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Harry
David
House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Pat Williams
D-Mont
Mr. Williams
Phil Sharp
D-Ind
Mr. Sharp
OBRA
Propac
Federal Communications Commission
Gress
Annette Lantos and Raoul Wallenberg Saga Across Years
Hungarian Jewish refugees Annette and Tom Lantos rebuilt lives after escaping the Nazis with Wallenberg’s aid. The couple, now prominent in U.S. politics, pursue Wallenberg’s fate, pressing Soviet and Swedish authorities for proof of his whereabouts or death. Annette’s drive helped win honors for Wallenberg and shape public memory of the rescue.
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Washington
Annette
Tom Lantos
Budapest
Dcalif
Annette Lantos
Raoul Wallenberg
Annette ‘Santos
Wallenberg
Nette
Tom
Mother
Annette Santos
Simon Wiesenthal
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Anl Saawers
Santos
Richard Chamberlain
Congress
Rose Garden
Ronald Reagan
Winston
Churchill
U.S
Wall
King’s The Dark Half sparks theory on violence in media
A U.S. cultural snapshot weighs Stephen King’s The Dark Half, noting a 1.5 million first printing and a plot mixing graphic violence with a twin-identity tale. Critics discuss why mass audiences crave gore, linking it to desensitization, capitalism, and psychology, while acknowledging King’s role in popularizing horror fiction in modern culture.
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Washington
Stephen King
Chicago
Cincinnati
Beaumont
King
Europe
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