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University of California at Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said no way to the campus police force's attempt to procure a military vehicle with a Department of Homeland Security grant.
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Because women score lower on the entrance exam than men, a woman who receives a certain score is given preference over any man who receives the same score.
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A New Jersey court ruled that Rutgers' law clinic did not have to comply with open records requests. A group of developers who want to build a mall and are opposed by the clinic wanted to FOIA some of its documents.
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"First thing that always pops into my head regarding our president is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him ... they just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white — very white American, Kansas, middle of America," Freeman said... Read more
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The economy created just 80,000 jobs in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. But that same month, 85,000 workers left the workforce entirely to enroll in the Social Security Disability Insurance program... Read More
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A Brazilian college student has admitted to lying about being held hostage by three men for 24 hours. In reality, she was staying with a friend; the kidnapping story was her attempt to avoid an end-of-semester project for a class.