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Senate's vulnerable Democratic majority
The Swampby Mark Silva With Republicans courting Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana to run against Sen. Evan Bayh, analysts are starting to count how many Democratic seats might be lost this fall. "In fact, it is likely that the Republicans will......Tags: New York, Kirsten Gillibrand, Washington (U.S. state), Parties and Movements, Wisconsin
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On Rutgers basketball, Princeton husband-hunting and Jimmy Kimmel
"What's the second paragraph?" That is my boilerplate response when someone suggests a column idea to me. "Yeah. Right. But where do I go from there?" Not every topic is worth 700 words. So, today I will offer a few words on recent headlines in the...Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Maryland General Assembly, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Appalachian National Scenic Trail, White House
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Muhlenberg's Tyler Bauer focused on the process
Tyler Bauer was politely encouraged to begin taking piano lessons when he was 6 years old. Violin instruction at age 9. The guitar at 13. The 5-foot-11, 210-pounder found joy playing football as a high school freshman. Later that school year, he...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, High School Sports, Swimming, Penn Relays, Roman Catholicism
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Are we ready for myalmamater.com?
The conveyance of knowledge from one wise man to a gathering of eager young people has been the model for education since Ancient Greece, and it has survived largely unchanged in the face of every kind of technology — from the printing press to...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Teaching and Learning
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Whitehall pair make college decisions
For a very select few, it's still football season. And the winter sports season, filled with hope for basketball players, wrestlers and swimmers, will have its first official day of practice Friday. But while people are already putting up Christmas...
Tags: Financial Aid, College Football, College Sports, Softball, Baseball
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Neighbor leaves cherished memories
My friend Mildred "Neale" Baltz died last month, just weeks shy of her 103rd birthday. Despite our 40-year age difference, we shared a lot in the nearly two decades that we were next-door neighbors. I wrote a story about Neale in 2005 — its...Tags: Columbia University, New York City, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Dance
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Lehigh's Ward looking forward to returning home
Tyler Ward grew up in Charlottesville, Va., the home of the University of Virginia. And not surprisingly, Ward said he grew up a big Cavaliers fan. "I bled blue and orange," Ward said. "From the time I was nine until I was 18, I probably missed like one...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Football, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Sports
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The GOP's fairness fakery
A show of hands: What words do you associate with Americans? No, not "no money down." Name one quality we like to think matters most to us. Fairness, right? That makes us decent people, but it also makes us suckers. Tell us we're being unfair and we're...Tags: George W. Bush, Fraud, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Gerald Ford, North Carolina
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All together now
You know a nation is in trouble when the worst epithet its citizens can hurl at each other is the title of a folk song: "Kumbaya," an African American spiritual whose name (and chorus) translates from the Gullah dialect as "come by here." It has had...Tags: George W. Bush, Folk (genre), Texas, Yanni, Elections
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Saying 'I do' while still in school
(CNN) -- While most college students are hooking up on the dance floor or checking each other out by scrolling through Facebook profile pictures, a small number of students are doing something really counter-cultural -- they're getting married before they...Tags: Family, Contracts, Loans, Students, CNN (tv network)
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Gregory Rodriguez: The war between the whites
The fourth-grade teacher in Virginia who performed a mock slave auction in her classroom April 1 — with the white kids pretending to buy and sell the black kids — was duly chastised by school officials for her racial insensitivity. Given...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, University of California, Los Angeles, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Wars and Interventions
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TV series can score PR points for Cavaliers
- Virginia produced an 18-part series on the Cavaliers' football team
- The show airs at 9 p.m.Mondays on Comcast Sports Net
- Next week's episode focuses on hiring of assistant coaches
Neither "Law & Order" nor "Dancing with the Stars" need fret...Tags: Al Groh, College of William and Mary, Jimmie Johnson, Tickets, NASCAR
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