Former U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell, who was largely responsible for the Pell grant program for U.S. college students, died Thursday morning at his Rhode Island home, his family said.
A change in eligibility for Pell Grants to be announced Thursday by the Department of Education would cut some 90,000 students from the rolls of recipients and affect more than 1 million others, an education advocate says.
Who is the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate? The last time we asked this fateful question (June 19, 1989), the surprising answer was Claiborne Pell, the spaced-out aristocrat from Rhode Islan...
We happened to be reading up on Claiborne Pell's ideology (see the lead item) on the same day we came across The Common Good: Social Welfare and the American Future, the latest broadside of the For...
Claiborne Pell? The Senator from Outer Space? He's the most liberal guy in the senior chamber? Surely Dr. Keeping Up jests in averring, in the box on the next page, that Pell's liberalism scores ex...
And now for a bit of brain exercise. Several weeks ago, we were flipping the pages of The Sciences, a high-class magazine published by the New York Academy of Sciences, and came across the followin...
While all chairmen would change in a Democratic Senate, business lobbyists might not detect much difference at many major committees. ''You would be putting in a centrist Democrat in place of a cen...
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