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Jennifer Jaff dies at 55; advocate for the chronically ill
Jennifer Jaff was on the brink of attending law school when her doctor tried to stop her because she had a debilitating chronic illness. "I decided I couldn't stay in bed the rest of my life," she later said. "I had to live." Decades later she was a...
Tags: Rentals, Lawyers, Social Security, Georgetown, Washington, DC
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Welcome to an age of interdependence
The outcome of November's presidential election will affect the entire world. Yet until the attack on our consulate in Libya, issues of foreign policy and globalization were nearly absent from the political discourse. There was talk at both parties'...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Immigration, Environmental Issues, Mitt Romney, Bill Clinton
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Eastern Climbs College Rankings
The Hartford CourantElsa Núñez has dedicated her life to education. Núñez, who has been president of Eastern Connecticut State University for seven years, has led a strategic planning project that has expanded the university buildings and created more support services for...Tags: Twitter, Inc., Racism, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Education
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Hard-Charging Campaign Manager Runs Point For McMahon's Assault On Murphy
The Hartford CourantSupporters waiting to shake Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon's hand at a campaign event in Farmington last month didn't pay much attention to the tall, boyish-looking operative hovering at the edge of the crowd. That man, Corry Bliss, 31,...Tags: Peter Shumlin, John Kerry, Washington, DC, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), U.S. House Committee on Ethics
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NBC Olympics and Twitter fury - a study in on-demand expectations unfulfilled
The Baltimore SunWith three nights of record ratings, NBC’s coverage of the London Summer Olympics is winning on the prime-time TV front. But it looks to be losing in major ways in the world of social media, as a rising tide of complaints about the network’...Tags: NBC (tv network), Bravo (tv network), NBCUniversal, Michael Phelps, MSNBC (tv network)
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Hey! (Math) Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
Apologies for tinkering with the lyrics from Pink Floyd but I love Andrew Hacker for stating what should be obvious -- do we really need algebra? Or geometry, trigonometry and calculus, for that matter. Hacker is an emeritus professor of political...Tags: Mathematics, Consumers, Teaching and Learning, Pink Floyd (music group), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Former UM student accused of campus threat pleads guilty
A former University of Maryland honors student accused of contemplating a campus shooting rampage accepted a plea deal Tuesday, and prosecutors said the case was evidence that authorities are responding threats with vigilance.
Alexander G. Song 2nd...Tags: Lawyers, Judges, Lobbying, Prince George's County, Crimes
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Colleges move toward absolute bans on smoking
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As a political science major at Ohio State University, Ida Seitter says, she lit up many a cigarette to help her through the stress of exam season. Right or wrong, they were her security blanket as she toiled through college....
Tags: Tobacco Products, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Ohio State University, Health and Safety at School, Colleges and Universities
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Sex offenders fight for right to use Facebook
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Registered sex offenders who have been banned from social networking websites are fighting back in the nation’s courts, successfully challenging many of the restrictions as infringements on free speech and their right to...
Tags: Online Media Industry, LinkedIn Corp., Computer Crime, Sociology, Trials
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All-State Jazz Band to be in Aberdeen Thursday
Sixty-six high school students will gather in Aberdeen Thursday evening for the 2012 South Dakota All-State Jazz Band. The annual gathering runs through Saturday at Northern State University. The event concludes with a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday....Tags: Aaron Copland, Entertainment, Teaching and Learning, Groton, Education
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Bethune-Cookman University names interim president
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelEdison Jackson, who was president of Medgar Evers College, a campus of the City University of New York, has been named as the interim president of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach. He will take over as interim president on May 14, B-CU... -
Elan Steinberg dies at 59; former head of World Jewish Congress
The son of Holocaust survivors, Elan Steinberg preferred to keep his family history private. But the fierce strategist and former leader of the World Jewish Congress was clearly motivated by it, according to observers, as he relentlessly pushed to...Tags: Nazi Party, Germany, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Judaism, Kurt Waldheim
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