The Chronicle of Higher Education

Convention Notebook: the Republicans

By SARA HEBEL

New York

Sallie Mae Meets Compassionate Conservatism

Officials from the Sallie Mae Fund, the philanthropic arm of the federal student-loan financer -- along with the Main Street Partnership, a group of moderate Republicans, and the U.S. secretary of agriculture, Ann M. Veneman -- spent one morning during last week's Republican National Convention...

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