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19 hours ago ago from The Reality-Based Community
The Reality-Based Community Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Patriots Main Jane Hamsher makes it official December 18th, 2009 Please audit me. by Andrew Sabl Kevin Carey has written a great article for Democracy about college teaching no, not an oxymoron, but too close for comfort. His basic thesis is that colleges would rather jack up prices and compete on ...
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last weekend was the lockdown weekend of 2009. on friday afternoon (dec. 11th), ms. shin, who was assigned the unenviable job of accountant' and thus, was also in charge of purchasing all snacks for the weekend, and i went to e-mart and crown bakery during school hours. at e-mart, we got roughly 250,000 won ($250) worth of food: fruits, cookies, candy, paper cups, juice. at crown bakery we bought roll cakes (a demand i made). it was a three ...
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21 hours ago ago from Educate Daily
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Andrew Sullivan is off for a bit at “The Daily Dish.” Conor Friedersdorf is helping fill in. He asked readers to email him stories that have been missed by the main stream media. I sent him the email below. He cut it and ran it h ere as the fourth, or last, cited response. Dear Connor, The main stream media totally ignored President Obama’s recent announcement before Chinese students in Shanghai that “the United States will ...
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Watch This: High School Recreates '500 Days' Musical Number
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The kids today! With their video games and their texting and their Twilight and their Adderall! Am I right, folks? But every now and then the kids do something fantastic like this and make elderly people such as myself jealous that we never did anything this fun when we were in high school. If you've seen 500 Days of Summer (out on DVD next week!), you will recall the celebratory musical number in the middle of the film. (You can watch it ...
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No vote on Mich. school changes as lawmakers wait LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Friday that an agreement is near on changes that could help Michigan win up to $400 million in federal funding for schools. "We are almost there," she told reporters after signing a smoking ban into law at a downtown brew pub. "The legislation is being drafted. We'll probably have a complete vote on it either later this afternoon or into the ...
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