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The president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, broke her silence late Wednesday afternoon about a sociology professor's anti-white social media posts, issuing a letter to the campus community hours after she shut the school down after school officials received threats. President Joanne Berger-Sweeney in her letter acknowledged
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Julius Caesar strolls into a Boston bar, gives the bartender a hard look and says, "Give me a martinus, straight up, three olives." The bartender is confused and says, "Sir, are you sure it's not a martini that you want?" Caesar looks him dead
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The war on guns reached a new low last week when school officials in Ohio suspended a seventh grader for clicking "Like" on a web page showing an Airsoft gun. Not that it matters, but the seventh grader was at home at the time of the alleged clicking.
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During the afternoon of Wednesday, April 19, 1775, Samuel Whittemore was confronted by something he never expected to see. The British army was marching right through his village, retreating from Concord. To Whittemore and his fellow Patriots, it seemed like an invasion.
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"The need of a college, catholic in spirit and under catholic auspices, is most evident …" — Providence Bishop Matthew Harkins to the Dominican Fathers, October 9, 1915
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In the never-ending battle to decide which one is less horrendous, Harvard caught a break late this week when Yale made an unforced error and hired John Kerry to some mumbo-jumbo new role. Yale announced that Kerry, a former Massachusetts lieutenant governor, will be the school's "first-ever
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Shrewd philanthropists and investors have helped to portray "school choice" in the form of publicly-funded charter schools as the kind of education reform that will finally satisfy the goal, starting with the authorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 1965, of increasing the academic performance
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School choice, the code word behind the battle to break the monopoly of the public schools, has begun in earnest. Long in the political shadows, the recent election and confirmation as Secretary of Education of a pro-school choice advocate, Betsy DeVos, has moved it into the light. Religious Americans, in
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