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On his radio show Monday afternoon, host Rush Limbaugh explained his motivation for apologizing to Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University student he had referred to as a “slut” and a “prostitute” over her testimony regarding birth control. Limbaugh said his apology — which he posted online over the weekend — was sincere and “heartfelt.” ...More
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"The impossible has happened: Harvard College is now thousands of dollars cheaper than Cal State East Bay for middle-income California students."
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"Washington still the nation’s best-educated city" says the
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Belmont University, the site of a debate between John McCain and Barack Obama four years ago, hosted GOP hopeful Rick Santorum on Wednesday. Santorum's visit to the Nashville, TN campus comes a week ahead of the state's primary vote on Super Tuesday. In an hourlong speech that didn’t start until about 8:45 p.m. — 45 minutes after it was scheduled to begin — the former Pennsylvania senator railed against big government and said Obama’s re-election bid this fall would “foundationally change” the nation... More
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Faculty members at Howard University are furious about $1.1 million in bonuses being paid out to top administrators.
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More information has been revealed about the admissions scandal at the University of Illinois, in which top officials at the flagship school are accused of accepting applicants at the intervention of politicians and prominent donors... The new details include the names of politicians involved, how many requests were made and how successful the applicants were after the intervention. The subpar applicants often had connections to major donors of the politicians’ campaigns, the newspaper reported... More