New York Times (blog)
... a senior administrator had inflated SAT scores submitted to college ranking guides was not the best way to make headlines. But they also defended their school, which has climbed to No. 9 among liberal arts colleges in the US News & World Report.
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New York Times (blog)
NATO report: Pakistan spy service still aiding Taliban in Afghan war
Washington Post (blog)
The BBC and Britain's the Times released excerpts from the report, which restates long-standing US allegations that Pakistan plays a “double-game,” supporting the Taliban's war across the border even while trying to quell its own Islamist insurgency.
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The Energy Report - The Wolf is at the Door
International Business Times
By Phil Flynn The oil market is getting less rattled by the headlines surrounding Iran. Iranian threats to shut down the Straits of Hormuz or cut off supply to Europe in a preemptive strike, have been like the old story of "the Little Boy Who Cried ...
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Crazy World: Woman who slept with 1000+ men was once a man
Emirates 24/7
BRITAIN: A woman who hit the headlines recently for having slept with 1000 men has claimed that she was actually a man. The 42-year-old sex addict admitted that a lot of men would be furious with her after learning the truth, reports The Sun.
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Kiddin' on the Keys - June 27, 1967
San Francisco Chronicle
Page one eight-column headlines in the LA Times last Thursday, one atop the other: "Baby Born to Luci - Jolt to Israel." Cairo and Damascus took the news calmly, I gather ... All those "Banned in Boston"-type jokes will now have to be scrapped, ...
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Occupy Oakland: Video Shows Protesters Breaking Into City Hall (LIVE UPDATES)
Huffington Post
OfftheBus contributor Paul E. Talbot shot video of the protest/performance: To contribute your own photos, videos or first-hand reports from political events, emailoffthebus@huffingtonpost.com. Chalk up another victory for the Occupy Our Homes ...
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| Bruce Springsteen Tour 2012: Another Concert Ticket Controversy International Business Times By Carey Vanderborg: Subscribe to Carey's RSS feed Bruce Springsteen's recently announced string of concert dates is making headlines again. The Boss declared that he would be selling seats to his upcoming tour only through "non-transferable electronic ... See all stories on this topic » |  International Business Times |
Big major key to our music
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The system checks the text of stories against databases such as the Journal's stylebook and style dictionary (Webster's New World) and also against an archive of troublesome names and terms that editors enter into the system. If Tansa is used properly, ...
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| Report: Josh Hamilton had a relapse with alcohol Yahoo! Sports (blog) Hamilton made headlines in the summer of 2009 after pictures of him drinking and partying in an Arizona bar made their way onto Deadspin. According to individuals familiar with the episode, Hamilton drank alcohol on Monday night in an area bar. See all stories on this topic » |  Yahoo! Sports (blog) |
| Follow Science Fiction and Fantasy Salon It's a book whose pages cannot be turned fast enough; a mystery with just a dash of science fiction and plot twists ripped from the business newsheadlines of the past year. Beware taking this book to bed with you, because you will stay up too late. See all stories on this topic » |  Salon |
Craig Evans, Francis Robinson, Lewis Rees on Cleverly Bill
BoxingScene.com
WBO World Light-Heavyweight Champion Cleverly headlines with the third defence of his title against tough American Tommy Karpency, his first fight in Wales for over four years and for the first time as a world champion. The show will be televised live ...
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| College Admissions: Another Wave of Scandals GoLocalProv So, when the New York Times reported that the Yale paper had known about sexual assault allegations against their quarterback since November, everyone was stunned. Last fall, Patrick Witt made national headlines with his supposedly heart wrenching ... See all stories on this topic » |  GoLocalProv |
Students react to SAT inflation at Claremont McKenna College
Contra Costa Times
Students said they were surprised and embarrassed to learn that since 2004 the school has reported inflated SAT scores to college ranking services, boosting incoming students' math and English scores by 10 to 20 points. Some students feared that ...
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| Newspaper review: NI and Republic of Ireland stories BBC News In Dublin, two very different issues occupy the main headlines. The IrishTimes claims that Europe's new fiscal treaty was drawn up specifically to minimise the prospect of a referendum in Ireland. The paper says Fianna Fail has joined other opposition ... See all stories on this topic » |  BBC News |
| Chefs fight foie gras ban KGO-TV SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A state-wide ban on foie gras goes into effect this summer -- in no small part the result of ABC7 I-Team reports eight years ago. It is a food fight that made headlines and spurred debate around the world, and some of these ... See all stories on this topic » |  KGO-TV |
| It's not just human beings who are living longer – our pets are too Financial Times How old is the world's oldest dog? When Pusuke, the Japanese record-holder, died in December, aged 26, it made global headlines from Vanity Fair to the Hindustan Times. It also created a vacancy. Tracking down Pusuke's successor has proved tough. See all stories on this topic » |  Financial Times |
Editor-in-Chief: Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman
The News International
Those of us who are addicted to politics are, like all addicts, distancing ourselves from reality. We get our daily dose of shrieking headlines. And they come, on news channels, with dark red flashes. At times, we get tipsy with excitement.
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Italy's Berlusconi to quit frontline politics
Washington Post
Financial Times More world news coverage: - In Egypt, protestors clash with police - Khameini: Iran will back “all groups” fighting Israel - Muslim Brotherhood official says West neglecting Egypt - Read more headlines from around the world.
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Ford Looks Ahead to a Solid but Subdued 2012
Motley Fool
By John Rosevear | More Articles Headlines in the wake of Ford's (NYSE: F ) fourth-quarter earnings report on Friday were mixed: While some played up the company's third consecutive annual profit and signs that management expected more profits going...
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| Patriots vs. Giants: Could Tom Coughlin Destroy Bill Belichick's Legacy? Bleacher Report His two greatest success stories in coaching are meeting head to head again in their quest for another Super Bowl title. With all the headlines this week about the Mannings, Tom Brady and his quest for postseason immortality and a Giants team that ... See all stories on this topic » |  Bleacher Report |
| Will America's Solar Civil War Destroy The Industry? TPM That anonymity, however, its protected by Commerce Department rules, as the New York Times reported when the complaints were initially filed. “As far as the other six companies go, this is a multinational business world,” said Ben Santarris, ... See all stories on this topic » |  TPM |
Honduras, Murder Capital of World, "Made in the USA"
Kansas City infoZine
"The headlines have been full of horror stories about Honduras. According to the United Nations, it now has the world's highest murder rate, and San Pedro Sula, its second city, is more dangerous than Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a center for drug cartel ...
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The Spit Felt 'Round The World
The Jewish Week
In fact, Yeshiva World News reported back in November, weeks before the spitting story, that the Eida Chareidis (the haredi umbrella council) had condemned Sikrikim-related violence even beyond and before Beit Shemesh. According to The New YorkTimes, ...
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Dispatches From The Edge:Israel's War On Democracy (and why Americans should care)
Berkeley Daily Planet
But while orthodox Jews spitting on eight-year old girls for being “immodestly dressed” has garnered the headlines, the most serious threats to democratic rights have gone largely unreported, including a host of proposed or enacted laws.
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MERCER-GOLDEN: The right questions
Yale Daily News
By Zoe Mercer-Golden As I look at the recent headlines in national newspapers and in the News, two words come to mind: sex and responsibility. The two are, of course, profoundly connected, and each is devastating in its own way.
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