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TheGrio's 100: Freeman A. Hrabowski III, university president and educational trailblazer
5:00 AM on 02/01/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Hrabowski looks like a proud papa scurrying around his office showing off pictures of kids he nurtured...
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NCAA's educational mission is great scam of 21st century
9:41 AM on 12/21/2009
OPINION - For the NCAA, the educational mission of their professional sports league is one of the great scams of the 20th and 21st centuries, no different from the Ponzi schemes of Bernie Madoff...
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Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama, study says
4:30 PM on 11/23/2009
When given a choice of voting for a lighter-skinned version of Barack Obama versus a darker-skinned version, most voters who consider themselves Democrats voted for the lighter version.
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Black woman is the highest paid college president
8:53 AM on 11/02/2009
(AP) - Topping the list of the nation's highest-paid university presidents is Shirley Ann Jackson at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., whose total compensation is pegged at nearly $1.6 million...
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South African track star ready for university exams
12:09 PM on 10/16/2009
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A champion runner at the center of a gender controversy is set to take university final exams, her father said Friday, contradicting earlier reports she was too traumatized to study...
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16-year-old arrested for 'all black people' leave Wal-Mart prank
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, NJ (AP) - "This was an extremely disturbing event on many levels," Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean Dalton said at a news conference."...
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