Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by and welcome to the Agenus Fourth Quarter 2020 Conference Call and Webcast. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this event is being recorded and may be used in future Agenus promotional material.
I would now like to turn the conference over to Jan Medina, Director of Investor Relations. Jan, please go ahead.
Jan Medina
Thanks, Liz, and thank you, all, for joining us today.
Today s call is being webcast and will be available on our website for replay. Before we start, I just want to quickly introduce myself. I now have spoken with a number of you already over the last month or so, but I started year here at Agenus back in February to help lead the investor relations efforts. Certainly, it s a very promising time for the Company. I m looking forward to being part of the conversations we re having with the investment community.
3-Minute Civics: Everyday due process
Published: 2/21/2021 6:30:42 AM
Legislation was introduced in the New Hampshire House of Representatives this session to make sure high school students prove they understand how our government works.
With a hearing this past week, House Bill 320 mandates students earn at least a 70% – a C-minus – on the federal naturalization test in order to don their cap and gown and graduate.
We wouldn’t be the first state with such a law, and as an educator I can see merit to the idea. But let’s be clear about something: knowledge without understanding, and understanding without action, on any scale – starting with citizen-to-citizen – is no education at all.
3-Minute Civics: ‘People are policy’ in presidential administrations
President-elect Joe Biden listens as retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, Biden’s choice to be secretary of defense, speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., on Wednesday. AP
Published: 12/13/2020 6:41:33 AM
(This is a companion piece to the Nov. 22 3-Minute Civics column on presidential transitions by Adam Krauss.)
When I teach my U.S. History students about American elections that changed the political landscape forever, I teach the election of 1800, when Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams, as the one that saved democracy.
Against George Washington’s advice, political parties had solidified and the 1800 election was particularly nasty, far more than even by today’s standards, even to the point of planting the seed that grew into the duel that would, three years later, kill Alexander Hamilton. What makes this election so important, though, is that after all of the venom and vin