Leaders in Total Compensation at Private Colleges, 2007-8. Source: IRS tax reports analyzed by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The fast-growing group of millionaire private college and university presidents hit a new record in recent years, and it's likely more college leaders will make seven-figure salaries once the slumping economy rebounds.
North Dakota state auditors will be going over cost overruns in the construction of new homes for the presidents of North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota.
SAN FRANCISCO - Earning a 6 and 5 win over Y.E. Yang, Tiger Woods improved to a perfect 5-0 in this year's Presidents Cup and clinched the third straight championship for the United States.
Fred Couples had his best week in golf without ever swinging a club.
Senior IOC members suggest the proven winning tactic of bringing top politicians to lobby for Olympic bids could be reaching an end.
All five living presidents will appear in a video shown before next week's All-Star game.
It's an unwritten rule in Mexico, followed by presidents for decades: Never criticize past or present leaders.
- It seems a shame to let the week go by without taking a deep breath and debriefing the first overseas trip by President Barack Obama.
So Robert Gates, what's it like working for Barack Obama after serving under George W. Bush?
They go home from the White House and step into new lives. Then what? Test your knowledge about what former presidents did after they left power behind.
Just days after the nation honored the 200th anniversary of his birth, 65 historians ranked Abraham Lincoln as the nation's best president.
White House moves have not always gone smoothly. Here are a few of the mix-ups between comings and goings of former presidents, adapted from "America's First Families," by National First Ladies Library historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony.
The National Archives and Records Administration is responsible for preserving all presidential records under a federal law passed in 1978. Before that, all presidents got to keep any of their White House records for themselves, but since President Ronald Reagan they have been publicly owned.
If only all home moves could be as quick and easy as at the White House.
That photographers' dream shot of the current president, the next president and the still-living presidents posing for a picture in the Rose Garden? Forget it! An unrelenting rain has forced the class picture inside.
Aiming for the smoothest transition of power he can manage, President George W. Bush is hosting a lunch next month with President-elect Barack Obama and all former presidents, the White House announced Wednesday.
All presidents are tested. Few walk into the Oval Office when the nation is in the throes of multiple crises. Like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President-elect Obama is facing a banking emergency.
Barack Obama faces mammoth challenges as the next president, including two wars and a tanking economy, but when he takes office Jan. 20 he will have an unusually wide array of political tools at his disposal.
How much can the president — one man — shape the U.S. economy, a $14.4 trillion tangle?
With less than a week to go before the presidential election, there’s no question the 2008 race to the White House is hinging on the economy. There is a question, however, about how much power the winner will have to turn the troubled economy around.
Tom Landry and Don Shula hardly needed much help. Between them, the two coaches would win 617 games in the NFL. And in 1972, they had led strong teams to Super Bowl VI. Still, a couple of presidents determined that neither man could capture their championship without their assistance.
Joe Biden is taking heat for saying that running mate Barack Obama will face a manufactured foreign policy crisis designed to test his leadership if he is elected. Republicans say this is precisely why a seasoned John McCain will make a better president. Democrats say the new president, no matter who it is, will have early challenges to deal with.
John McCain's health plan would reduce the ranks of the uninsured by about 21.1 million people if fully put in place by 2010, while Barack Obama's would reduce the number by 26.6 million, an analysis predicts.
The college presidents said they wanted a national debate on the 21-year-old drinking age. They got it.
Every US President since Carter has seen settlement building as an impediment to Peace.
There's been talk that George W. Bush was so inept that he should trademark the phrase "Worst President Ever," though some historians would bestow that title on pre-Civil War President James Buchanan. Still, a case could be made for putting Ronald Reagan in the competition...
SALINAS, Calif. -- A seventh-grader and her 80-year-old grandfather are allegedly the first people to discover that President Barack Obama is related to all other U.S. presidents except one.
I don't know how many people get to say that... or when i will ever get the chance to meet even ONE other president, but the last two days have been amazing for someone like me who LOVES politics and who is such a big fan of Barack Obama!
IN a recent speech in London, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top United States commander in Afghanistan, was blunt.
It would be funny, were it not so tragic, to watch individuals who could not distinguish between the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and Green Eggs and Ham lamenting about the original intent of the Founders at their "tea parties" and town hall meetings.
Jon Stewart does a piece onwhat the right calls the indoctrination of the school children in one school in New Jersey. It is a pretty funny clip.
The federal appeals court for the District of Columbia ruled Friday that the government cannot restrict independent political spending by nonprofit groups or political committees, accelerating the judicial rollback of regulations aimed at curtailing the power of money in politics …
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - President Barack Obama's campaign for a health care overhaul is an intense installment in a long-running story, dating to Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
In the last few months, a number of pundits have been analyzing the language of Barack Obama in an attempt to uncover who he really is. The words that are attracting the most attention is his use of first person singular pronouns, or I-words. As Mark Liberman and many others …
Given the circumstances we find ourselves in today, which of the previous nine presidents could do the best job of running the country for the next three or four years? Take the poll, then tell us why you chose that one.
President Barack Obama may be the most recent chief executive to have to endure the focus of paranoid conspiracy theorists, but he's not the first...
Back in 1999, I polled friends, family, and perfect strangers to find out who they thought was "the best" President. I did this for an article that was posted on my website at the time, but it wasn't a very accurate report. I'm a Democrat, as are most of my friends and family.
Ever since Presidents started appointing Czars, I have wondered about the validity and uses and powers of these positions. As stated in the U.S. Constitution: Section 2 - Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments
It's too soon to judge the current one, but for past presidents, the verdict is in. U.S. News has averaged the results of five polls to make a slideshow of the worst chief executives.
President Warren Harding's airedale, Laddie Boy, had his own hand-carved chair to sit in during cabinet meetings. President Benjamin Harrison's collie, Dash, had his own private quarters in a house of his own next to the White House.
What did Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower have in common? Here is something that should be of great interest for you. I didn't know of this until it was pointed out to me.
Say that four times fast. Okay, I was originally going to make this a test, but school is out so who wants to answer questions?. So everybody who is interested in reading some really neat stuff about the 4th of July, raise your hand. Let's see...nobody.
TORONTO - Former President George W. Bush called former President Bill Clinton "his brother" and the two rarely disagreed in their first-ever appearance together on stage.
First lady Michelle Obama misses life without the constant commentary, but says she does what works for her since there's always someone who thinks she could have done something better.
In his memoir "My Remarkable Journey," talk-show host Larry King shines a spotlight on the cast of characters he's interviewed and also talks candidly about the loss of his father, his money problems and his eight marriages to seven women. Here is an excerpt.
First lady Michelle Obama misses life without the constant commentary, but says she does what works for her since there's always someone who thinks she could have done something better.
Invasion is too strong a word for what goes on in Normandy when there is a significant D-Day anniversary, but there is disruption.