Entrepreneurship, as an ingredient in urban renewal that Nancy Cantor first described to me some years before she came to Syracuse, is a big part of the potential answer.

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Joining the Vice President at his law school alma mater were Task Force members Secretary Geithner and Secretary Duncan, Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, and a panel of education policy experts.

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In the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer are swapping offices with John Boehner and Eric Cantor, respectively.

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