Elizabeth Garrett
Elizabeth Garrett
Helen Elizabeth Garrett, commonly known as Elizabeth Garrett or Beth Garrett,, was an American professor of law and academic administrator. Between 2010 and 2015, she served as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Southern California. On July 1, 2015, she became the 13th president of Cornell University—the first woman to serve as president of the university. She died from colon cancer on March 6, 2016, the first Cornell president to die while in office...
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The trick for him is becoming less flamboyant, succeeding at governing, but not losing what makes him special and different from other politicians.
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That's not what the Florida Supreme Court said. That's not the only reading of the Florida Supreme Court and I don't think it's the best reading.
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We are not looking at tax reform this year or probably during the Bush presidency. Maybe they'll resurrect it in 2007, but then at that time everyone will be looking at the next presidential race.
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Often regulated industry or people who would benefit from decisions are the only ones with the information that public servants need.
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When they're on the ballot, it means the candidate can't ignore them.
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Repealing the individual AMT will cost $1.2 trillion. Either that has to come from higher taxes or reduced tax expenditures or some combination.
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He's now not seen as the same Schwarzenegger who won the recall (election) and was so successful last year. He is either seen as a partisan, or insensitive about ordinary people.
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Initiatives tend to shape turnout substantially in non-presidential elections.
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My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
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When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.
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I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.
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At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.
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I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.
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I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.