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Some of the protesting students who were pepper sprayed by campus police at U.C. Davis last November have filed suit against the officers and the university.
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Once upon a time it was considered weird and creepy to begin a romantic relationship online. Online dating sites circa 2000? Ew! Now, of course, meeting potential partners online is par for the course. Could it be that online education -- once considered sub-par compared to traditional in-class lectures -- is likewise on its way to becoming the norm? ...More
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At age 76, Ron Paul may be the face of libertarianism today. But if there is a white, stodgy, old-man stereotype associated with libertarianism, it was surely overturned this past weekend at the Fifth Annual International Students For Liberty Conference, held at the Grand Hyatt in Washington D.C.
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Former UVA men's lacrosse player George Huguely has been convicted of second degree murder in relation to the death of UVA women's lacrosse player, Yeardley Love: Huguely is believed to have killed Ms Love in a jealous rage fuelled by her relationship with a North Carolina lacrosse player... More
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If you think about it, some of the hottest political controversies of our time center around the energy problem -- from Obama's corrupt loans to the failed Solyndra enterprise, to the disastrous Deepwater Horizons oil spill. Politicians stand to lose a lot when their energy bets go bad. That holds true whether the mantra is "Kumbaya, and let's go hug a tree" or "Drill, baby, drill."...More
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Whenever the government increases financial aid, universities simply "cream off the extra money by raising tuition." Students aren't helped at all. That's the theory then-Secretary of Education Bill Bennett espoused in 1987. The regnant phrase was "Don't leave money sitting on the table." The metaphoric table in question was the one on which the government had laid out a sumptuous banquet of increases of financial aid... More