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Lawmakers propose 3-year degree, other changes to lower college cost

Edit NJ dot com 29 Sep 2016
The proposals, which stem from a government task force , were unveiled by State Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) and Sen ... Sweeney and Cunningham also endorsed the creation of so-called "3-plus-1 programs," allowing students to complete three years at a county college and one year at a four-year college and receive a degree from the four-year school. ....

Aleppo: Brain surgery carried out on hospital floor

Edit BBC News 29 Sep 2016
Contains distressing footage from the start and graphic scenes of surgery....

How a slap in the face has sparked Lehigh football's O-line

Edit Lehigh Valley 29 Sep 2016
But if the Lehigh football team's offensive line was going to shoulder some of the blame for a season-opening loss to Monmouth, it surely should get equal credit for the juggernaut that is the Mountain Hawks' offense of late. After moving the disappointing 239 yards in Week 1, Lehigh has racked up 1,169 yards of offense over the last two weeks — not coincidentally, two wins ... Same with Liborio and Evan Sweeney....

All 18 Tim Burton Movies Ranked, From Worst to Best (Photos)

Edit The Wrap 29 Sep 2016
How does Tim Burton‘s “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” stack up with the offbeat auteur’s other films, like “Batman” and “Edward Scissorhands”? ... Writers Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander (“The People vs ... The People vs ... It’s one of the greatest movies about Hollywood, about risk, about determination, about art, ever made ... Sweeney Todd ... Planet of the Apes....

Bruce Springsteen's memoir beautifully dissects his own masculinity

Edit AOL 29 Sep 2016
In performances in the early- and mid-1970s, Bruce Springsteen sometimes played "Wings for Wheels," an early version of what would become his famous rock-and-roll romance, "Thunder Road." ... In it, Springsteen weighs his car against his girl, with the car coming out ahead — "This 4/4 is gonna overheat / Make up your mind girl I gotta get her back out on the street." ... Bruce Springsteen through the years ... The U.S....

Joan Sweeney ‘cared deeply about helping students’ (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Sep 2016
She cared deeply about helping students, particularly first generation students and ones from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds,' says Cori Splain, who herself was hired by Sweeney as a student and now works full time as a business analyst in the Office of Student Financial Aid ... Through the financial aid office, Sweeney helped students find employment across campus....

Harris: Don Sweeney finally nets a win in Brad Marchand deal

Edit Boston Herald 28 Sep 2016
On the 2015 draft floor, Sweeney was unable to package his newly acquired first-round picks and get the high pick needed to select BC’s Noah Hanifan or one of the other high-rated defensemen to fill the Hamilton void ... The point is, Sweeney has been in need of a front-office victory — and he got one yesterday with the announcement that ......

Your comments: Fulop won't be running for governor, after all

Edit NJ dot com 28 Sep 2016
While the big-picture news is that Phil Murphy and Steve Sweeney are now the front-runners for governor, NJ.com readers had plenty to say about how Fulop has governed Jersey City so far and how he would have handled the governor's job ... This is bad news for Sweeney amd good news for the residents of NJ ... Sorry, Sweeney; you may or may not be more able, but you don't have the scratch that this Murphy guy has....

Christie 'encouraged' by recent talks to end N.J. road funding crisis

Edit NJ dot com 28 Sep 2016
The governor said Tuesday night on NJ 101.5's "Ask the Governor" program  that he, Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto and Senate President Stephen Sweeney "have been having active discussions over the past two weeks" and they are "making progress." ... Sweeney, meanwhile, said the governor's tax cuts are too costly and will bust the budget....

Fulop won't run for N.J. governor, a 'game-changer' for 2017 race to succeed Christie

Edit NJ dot com 28 Sep 2016
JERSEY CITY -- Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, a Democrat, formally announced Wednesday afternoon that he won't run for governor next year -- a shocking move that reshapes the race to succeed Republican Chris Christie.  ... Matthew Hale, a political science professor at Seton Hall University, said Sweeney -- the leader of the upper house of the state Legislature -- is "still the Democrat with the most name ID."....

Can N.J. make college more affordable? Plan coming today

Edit NJ dot com 28 Sep 2016
Lawmakers say they have a plan to help families afford college in a state home to some of the nation's most expensive public universities ... Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) and Sen. Sandra Cunningham (D-Hudson) will announce the initiative at a 3 p.m. news conference in Trenton, according to Sweeney's office. ....

Kogod Hosts Online Immersion Courses for MBA and MSaN Students (American University)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Sep 2016
The weekend of September 16-18, 2016, AU's Kogod School of Business welcomed over 100 online graduate students to campus for the first time ... The MBA Immersion-Business in the Capitol, and the MS Analytics two-part capstone ... Groups spoke with Marek Gootman, director of the worldwide initiative, as well as Kogod's Bob Sweeney, who manages the Initiative in DC. 'The group projects were creative and well thought-out,' says Sweeney....

‘Tarzan’ found swinging through trees at zoo is headed to prison

Edit The Miami Herald 28 Sep 2016
Zookeepers at the Santa Ana Zoo in California found John Williams Rodenborn, shirtless and covered in mud, climbing into trees at the zoo and trying to swing his way into exhibits ... You, under arrest,” wrote the New York Daily News ... “He’s not Tarzan anymore,” his attorney, Jim Sweeney, told the Register ... It really did,” Sweeney told the Register....
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