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Holdout law schools to accept military recruiters 15 Aug 2011 | 04:34 am
For Vermont Law School, the price of standing on principle was $500,000.
Maurice Johnson Is Homeless With Two Master's Degrees (VIDEO) 11 Aug 2011 | 04:13 am
He's articulate, intelligent and very well educated, but Maurice Johnson says he can't find a job.
Graduate Students Hit Hard In Debt Deal 3 Aug 2011 | 04:45 am
As part of the savings to trim the deficits, Congress would scrap a special kind of federal loan for graduate students. So-called subsidized student loans don't charge students any interest on the pri...
Homosexual bigots commit hate crimes, Part 8 -- WA petition signers 29 Jul 2011 | 09:15 pm
"A hate crime...involves threats, harassment, or physical harm and is motivated by prejudice against someone's...religion..." — USLegal.com"A threat is also defined as a menace that keeps the mind of ...
OpEdNews - Article: What Osama bin Laden, Troy Davis, and You Have in Common 6 May 2011 | 08:38 am
So, the United States invaded Mexico, lied about it, killed, raped, pillaged, and stole half the country for the cause of expanding slavery in our growing continental empire.
'Three Cups Of Tea' Author Greg Mortenson Still Being Burned By Fraud Scandal 1 May 2011 | 11:45 am
"Three Cups Of Tea" author Greg Mortenson continues to face charges that his story was fabricated and the financial statements for his foundation, Central Asia Institute (CAI), are faulty. As fallout ...
Court OKs blind student's software for bar exam 6 Jan 2011 | 07:26 pm
A blind Bay Area law graduate was entitled to use computer-assisted reading devices that gave her the best chance of passing the California bar exam, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a broad i...
The Precarious Position of Lt. Reese - NYTimes.com 6 Jan 2011 | 07:22 pm
Today Disunion begins an occasional series about the lives of individual soldiers during the Civil War — North and South, black and white. Compiled and written by Ronald S.
Social inequality makes you fat | San Francisco Bay Guardian 6 Jan 2011 | 05:37 am
This is one of my favorite bits of social science research of the past year: The kind of gross inequality that we see in the United States not only harms productivity, damages the economy and is unsus...
Rich Americans cut back on charitable giving 11 Nov 2010 | 07:27 pm
NEW YORK — Charitable giving by wealthy Americans dropped by more than a third between 2007 and 2009 as the worst U.S. recession in decades put pressure on the nonprofit sector, according to a study r...
