“Well, it looks like John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. He is the son of a bartender, one of 12 children. He grew up in a two room home with just one bathroom, worked his way through school, became the first person in his family to graduate from college. And, sadly, fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up in Congress.” WayFirstsWellsLooksChildrenPersonsTwoHomeSchoolHouseRoomsCollegeSonGrewGrew UpCongressCrowdsWoundsJust OneGraduatesSpeakersBathroomFirst PersonBartenderWrong Crowd Author:Jay Leno
“This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.” WayYearsAmericaPresidentWhiteStudentsCollegeJudgingRepublicanGayMembersCatholicDemocraticMalesCongressSavedAfrican AmericanCombatMexicanSurgeonsKoreanAmerican PresidentCollege StudentsMexican American Author:Mark Shields
“Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it - just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone.” NeedsRunningSportsCollegeUniversityCongressActiveFacultyAutonomyEmpoweredBackboneAdministratorsNcaaCollege SportsBylaws Author:Sally Jenkins