The Common Ills: Rewards from a 'Cosmic Moral Supreme Court'?

He had repeatedly been threatened and warned to stop his investigative reporting but his courage and professionalism pushed him to continue (http://en.rsf.org/iraq-journalist-gunned-down-in-kirkuk-22-07-2008,27900.html). Iraq's big news this week is the merger of the two biggest Shi'ite blocs into a power-sharing coalition thereby bypassing the biggest vote getter (Iraqiya) in the March 7th elections. Michael Jansen (Irish Times) reports: The proclamation of the sectarian merger has sidelined the secular Iraqiya bloc headed by Iyad Allawi which won 91 seats, the largest number, and should [more...]

Date: 2010-05-07 11:22:00

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Both European Union & American Economies are intertwined and ...

During this time the American Government has borrowed $8,200,000 from this Central Bank, and prices in the country have increased by 72%. In relation to this, Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State stated,"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution taking from the Federal Government their power of borrowing."1798: Mayer Amschel Rothschild sends his son, Nathan, at the age of 21, to England with a sum of money equivalent to £20,000, to set up a money changers there. 1800: In France, the Bank of France was set up. However Napoleon decided France had to break [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 09:40:11

Despite Tribal Opposition, US Government Approves Cape Cod Wind ...

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has approved the nation's first offshore wind farm, despite strong opposition from the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and environmental groups. The 130 turbines are to be located several miles from the Massachusetts shore in the waters of Nantucket Sound, which Wampanoag consider part of their sacred cultural heritage. Salazar declared that Cape Wind, as the project is known, is the start of a "new energy frontier." "Cape Wind will be the nation's first offshore wind farm, supplying clean power to homes and businesses in Massachusetts, plus creating good jobs [more...]

Date: 2010-04-28 19:51:58

Shirat Devorah: Why the American Dream is becoming the American Doom

This was led by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who wants to make the Middle East a nuclear free zone. The world has done nothing to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons and now wants Israel to declare its weapons! This is a direct attack on Israel's defensive capabilities. There is no other nation in the Middle East with nuclear weapons, so it is a direct attack on Israel. On Wednesday, the United States began negotiations with Israel to divide the land and Jerusalem. While meetings were taking place, the US stock market was literally in chaos and at one point dropped 1000 points! In [more...]

Date: 2010-05-08 19:26:00

Secretary Gates wants 'hard, unsparing look' at military spending

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has a clear and pointed message for the US military establishment: Take â��a hard, unsparing look” at what you’re costing the US taxpayer during difficult economic times, and look for serious belt-tightening measures. In a speech Saturday at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, Secretary Gates said: “In each instance we must ask: First, is this respectful of the American taxpayer at a time of economic and fiscal duress? And second, is this activity or arrangement the best use of limited dollars, given the pressing needs to take care of our [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 00:58:15

New and Improved Citizenship Stripping Coming to America

Senator Joe Lieberman, who cannot seem to decide if he’s on the right “team,” wants to put this power into the hands of Secretary of State Hillary “Der Rodham” Clinton and the U.S. Department of State.By now you’ve heard that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is proposing a new law that could potentially strip Americans of their citizenship if they’re involved with foreign terrorist organizations. Two things you should know about this: First, it isn’t just some paranoid liberal nightmare. It’s actually moving forward. Lieberman is going to hold a presser tomorrow to introduce the [more...]

Date: 2010-05-06 18:04:17

The Perils Of Prop 15 | Fox & Hounds Daily

Hidden away on the June primary ballot is Proposition 15, titled the California Fair Elections Act.  While the measure has not received a lot so attention so far, it is a classic example of the law of unintended consequences.   Disclosure: I am one of the ballot pamphlet signatories opposing this measure.  I signed the rebuttal argument for a couple of reasons.  This is a system of public financing of elections placed on the ballot by the legislature, ostensibly to test public financing in the Secretary of State's election, beginning in 2014.  However, the authors conveniently [more...]

Date: 2010-05-06 17:26:25

Secretary Arne Duncan Speaks at the First-Annual Mom Congress – ED ...

Skip to content. « The Future of America: Financial Literacy Education · Teacher Appreciation Week » ... One mother from every state and Washington, D.C. was selected, based on a review of applications, to participate in the congress as a delegate. The conference at Georgetown University marked the first time all 51 delegates had the opportunity to meet, discuss their concerns about the nation's schools, and share success stories. As the keynote speaker, Secretary Duncan [more...]

Date: 2010-05-05 19:43:48

ExecutedToday.com » 1896: H. H. Holmes, America's first serial killer

Two days after his arrest Holmes, who dreaded being sent back to Texas on a charge of horse-stealing, for which in that State the punishment is apt to be rough and ready, made a statement to the police, in which he acknowledged the ... She had come to Holmes in 1893, as secretary, at a drug store which he was then keeping in Chicago. Their relations had become more intimate, and later in the year Miss Williams wrote to her sister, Nannie, saying that she was going to be [more...]

Date: 2010-05-07 08:14:33

Book Review: A Nation Rising by Kenneth C. Davis

In 1804, while serving as vice president of the United States under Thomas Jefferson, Burr challenged Alexander Hamilton, who had been the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury, to a duel, in which Hamilton was mortally wounded. Upon leaving office in 1805, Burr was involved in a shadowy conspiracy intending, it was rumored, to seize Spanish lands in what is now Mexico and set up an empire independent of the United States. Burr was arrested and brought to trial on charges of treason, but was acquitted because of lack of evidence. Chief Justice John Marshall, acting as presiding judge at [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 01:05:42

Daily Kos: Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday

History will be cruel because...gay adoption---and even gay marriage---is already a reality in many states and will happily spread across the country, gaining legal and social approval and making such statements as "children are not puppies" seem as outdated as "Blacks will destroy unit cohesion if the military tries desegregation." Verdict: History will be CRUEL. Mike Huckabee is smart enough to know better, but chooses instead to sell his soul to the lowest common teabagger. He'll always have a portrait hanging in the Arkansas statehouse, but other than that he'll mostly be a political [more...]

Date: 2010-04-13 13:39:43

Federal government to day laborers: We're here to help - Political ...

Armed with coffee, not handcuffs, investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor chatted warmly with Latino immigrant workers about how to find jobs without being exploited. "We're the feds, but the good ones," said Paul Ramirez, speaking in Spanish inside the Michael Chavez Center, a gathering spot for day laborers. "We're here to help workers." The unprecedented visit was part of a campaign to bring long-established workplace protections to the nation's most vulnerable and underpaid workers, including those who have no legal right to be living in the United States. "Documented or [more...]

Date: 2010-05-08 17:01:54

Burying a fossil « qnotes - north carolina south carolina lgbt ...

Helms attended Monroe Public Schools, after which he matriculated to Wingate Junior College and Wake Forest College in Wake Forest, N.C. In 1940, he would leave Wake Forest without completing his degree and begin his journalism career as a sports editor for The Raleigh Times, now known as The News & Observer. In 1942, the second World War hit America by surprise. As Helms was leaving his work to serve in the U.S. Navy, he married Dorothy “Dot” Coble. His 1945 return to journalism set him on a career path toward international infamy. Dixiecrat Jesse Like most white North Carolinians of [more...]

Date: 2008-07-26 04:08:46

Gas Chamber – An American Idea « Yad beYad English

California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics movement. During the 20th century’s first decades, California’s eugenicists included potent but little-known race scientists, such as Army venereal disease specialist Dr. Paul Popenoe, citrus magnate Paul Gosney, Sacramento banker Charles Goethe, as well as members of the California state Board of Charities and Corrections and the University of California Board of Regents. Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 14:10:32

North Korea attacks Deepwater Horizon Oil Platform in the Gulf of ...

The World stood in fascination, dismay and then in horror during the last half of April 2010 when they watched the Deepwater Horizon Oil Platform in the Gulf of Mexico as it first went up in flames on April 20, 2010 and then exploded and collapsed into the depths of that once asteroid impacted gulf called the Gulf of Mexico.  With its demise were also the lives of 11 workers and touched off an underwater gusher of oil first reported to be 3 million gallons of crude per day flowing into this deepwater gulf.  This platform was contracted by one of the largest oil giants in the world, [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 05:24:17

mental_floss Blog » All Aboard! 7 Offbeat Bus Tours

For about five seconds in the 1990s, Las Vegas tried to clean up its act. The new “family-friendly” Vegas — with amusement-style attractions, PG-rated shows and Disneyfied dining experiences — promised to de-sleaze the Sin City. But the promoters of the “new Vegas” overlooked one important fact: sleaze sells. And as quickly as you can say, “Room service, bring me another stripper,” the real Vegas was back. The sleaze factor did not elude the creators of the Vegas Mob Tour, a 2.5-hour van ride through Vegas’ blood-soaked past. As you’ll learn on the tour, Vegas was founded [more...]

Date: 2010-04-28 19:48:16

Blogspot: Friends of Peltier: The Angola Three - 38 Years in ...

Louisiana has the highest per capita incarceration in the world, the ACLU getting over 80 complaints a month about guard beatings, overcrowding, poor medical care or its denial, mistreatment of mentally ill prisoners, squalid living conditions, and denial of access to lawyers. The Bill of Rights grants constitutional protections to everyone, including persons in custody, regardless of their crime. Especially abhorrent are rigged trials, judicial complicity, wrongful convictions, and appellate unfairness to keep innocent victims incarcerated. Angola's Horrific History Angola has always been [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 13:54:00

Free Thought Manifesto: The Slaughter In The Congo

Clinton, secretary of state Madeleine Albright and others within his administration knew for years what was taking place in Rwanda and did little to halt the genocide. After the bloodletting ceased, Clinton awoke from a somnambulist stupor, saxophone in hand, and, being America’s “first black president,” flew to Kigali to apologize. His apology rang hollow to those who had suffered due to Clinton’s inaction. The question before President Obama is whether he will, like Clinton and many other of his predecessor, awake from his presidential slumber in a few years and travel to Kinshasa [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 05:00:00

The End of an Icon; A Beginning For Me | RedState

Two term Governor of Alaska and President Nixon’s first Secretary of the Interior, Walter Hickel died last evening.  The Anchorage Daily News’ story is here” http://www.adn.com/2010/05/07/1268751/hickel-dead-at-age-90.html  If you’ve ever seen pictures of the Anchorage skyline, the golden brown building near the Cook Inlet waterfront is his most visible monument, the Captain Cook hotel, which he built before the rubble was even cleaned up from the 1964 Good Friday earthquake, the strongest ever recorded in North America. In 1959, Alaska was so firmly Democrat that it was only [more...]

Date: 2010-05-08 16:10:06

Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc ...

Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., aprivate, not-for-profit organization that supports medical research andeducation at the university and the military medical community; and Onconova. 2 Stanislas Wawrinka in the second round of the ATP event in Shanghai.Roddick was leading 4-3 in the first set when he fell and hurt his knee. AuburnMark my words, Gus Malzahn will be a head coach at a BCS school within two years The scary part? He might be running the world within five 24 South FloridaEnjoy your win over Florida State, Bulls fans. They have disappointed fans [more...]

Date: 2010-05-08 21:03:06

Exposing Liberal Lies: She Shares the Views of Average Americans

And 'What I would say to them is, is that if the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff are comfortable with it, I'm probably going to take my advice from them and not from Sarah Palin.' Palin came back, quick as a flash, sarcastically honoring 'the vast nuclear experience that he acquired as a community organizer, part-time senator, and full-time candidate.' Within hours, Obama was retracting his original statement. Finally, Palin has come down squarely on the side of Israel, Israel's right to expand, and a united Jerusalem. She fully supports Israel's right to [more...]

Date: 2010-05-04 02:27:00

ontd_political: BP's Newest Policy: Let Mother Nature Sort It Out ...

BP is financially responsible for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, so it is desperately trying the limit the financial and legal fall out. The company tried to buy off coastal residents and local fishermen hired to help clean up the mess with payments and jobs in exchange for signing a waiver promising not to sue. Tony “What the hell did we do to deserve this?” Hayward, CEO of British Petroleum, the Goldman Sachs of Big Oil, is at it again, as TP reports in this repost. Alabama’s attorney general and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano both decried the waivers [more...]

Date: 2010-05-07 04:36:47

Gates Calls for Significant Cuts in Defense Overhead :: Elites TV

The secretary said he understands these political and fiscal realities, but says there has to be real reform in the way DoD does business.“For the better part of two years I have focused on the Pentagon’s major weapons programs – to make sure we are buying the right things in the right quantities,” he said. “Last year, the department made more than 30 tough choices in this area, cancelling or curtailing major weapons systems that were either performing poorly or excess to real world needs – about $330 billion dollars worth as measured over the life of the terminated programs. We [more...]

Date: 2010-05-08 19:17:28

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MELANIE KAAIHUE, promoted to assistant vice president-Combined Federal Campaign. Formerly general assistant responsible for maintaining administrative services, she will analyze, organize and put into effect strategies and processes that pertain to the annual CFC fundraising campaign, and will also teach volunteers campaign procedures. CHRISTIE MIYASATO, hired as general services assistant, will provide general services in the administration/human resources technical area, including mailroom and copy room operations and maintenance of records of all office supplies and equipment orders. DR. [more...]

Date: 2007-07-02 12:20:11

Cape Wind project gets green light | PRI.ORG

Despite some strong objections, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the permit for the facility. "I am approving the Cape Wind project with modifications that will help protect the historic cultural and environmental resources of Nantucket sound. This will be the first of many projects up and down the Atlantic coast as we build a new energy future for our country." Salazar says Cape Wind's 130 turbines could generate 468 megawatts of carbon-free power, about as much as an average coal fired power plant. It could also generate a thousand jobs, something that excites Marty Aikens of the [more...]

Date: 2010-05-03 12:15:00

Citybizlist Atlanta - NCR Names Jennifer Daniels General Counsel ...

Daniels brings great depth and balance of legal experience to global leader in point of service solutionsDULUTH, Ga. -- NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) today named Jennifer Daniels as its general counsel and corporate secretary, reporting to NCR Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bill Nuti. Daniels, 46, most recently served as vice president, general counsel and secretary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. She will be responsible for all legal matters at the company. Ms. Daniels was selected following an extensive search and evaluation of internal and external candidates.Earlier in her career, Daniels [more...]

Date: 2010-04-19 12:37:58

NEW YORK PARALEGAL BLOG: Department of Commerce Sends Letter to ...

WASHINGTON – Late yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke submitted a letter to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee expressing the administration’s view that the draft Manager’s Amendment to existing Senate patent reform legislation will make the reforms more effective upon implementation. Reforming the patent system will accelerate economic growth and job creation, and expand America’s ability to innovate. In the letter, Locke expressed the administration’s position that the draft Manager’s Amendment to S.515, the “Patent Reform Act of 2010,” saying that it [more...]

Date: 2010-04-21 19:37:00

Picks for the First Obama Cabinet | 2012 Doomsday Predictions

Richardson is a Latino, has a boatload of experience and is just an all-around great story. Make him the first Latino Secretary of State. I’m sure that re-election in 2012 won’t be too difficult. Secretary of the Treasury: I’m going out on a limb here. But I would hope that the Secretary of the Treasury would be a guy like Warren Buffett, someone who knows the markets and is known for his pragmatic approach to business and life. With Buffett’s age and his business, I’m sure it won’t happen, but wouldn’t that be a score for the American people. Another solid pick would be: Jon [more...]

Date: 2010-05-07 02:49:51

Obama addresses health care at Downtown convention : Michael ...

The Employee Free Choice Act allows for faster certification of unions, changes laws that govern union-employer negotiation and makes punishments for employers that break labor laws tougher. A recent census report stated that, before the economic downturn, family income in 2008 was the lowest in the past 10 years, Obama said. “That’s unacceptable. And I refuse to let America go back to the culture of irresponsibility that made it possible — back to an economy with soaring CEO salaries and shrinking middle class incomes, back to the days when banks made reckless decisions that hurt Wall [more...]

Date: 2010-05-08 14:53:58

Question: What impact did the Tea Party have on the Ohio election ...

Hillary Democrats in Boystown snarking on Politics, American Foreign Policy, and Illinois government Here’s something we’d like you to help us look into today:  the Cleveland Plain Dealer is claiming the Tea Party had no impact on the elections in Ohio yesterday.  We believe this is more MSM lies, and wishful thinking on the part of Democrats.  As the election results are made available in full, let’s analyze them and see what’s really going on. At first blush, it’s clear to us the Tea Party had a HUGE impact in Ohio. * George Soros and White House backed candidate Jennifer [more...]

Date: 2010-05-05 09:59:27

Franken C-Span Take 3 | Clarion Advisory

Latest News 08 May 2010 - Gates: runaway military spending may affect war plans 09 May 2010 - Obama, Merkel discuss European markets 08 May 2010 - Senator Bennett fails Utah re-election bid 09 May 2010 - Japan to decide on U.S. base plan Monday: report 08 May 2010 - Obama hopes Senate will ratify START by November 08 May 2010 - U.S. warns Pakistan after NY bomb attempt: report 08 May 2010 - Obama touts healthcare in new bid to ease doubts 08 May 2010 - Reform bill should include Fannie, Freddie: Shelby 09 May 2010 - Author Peter Carey bemoans U.S. Tea Party boom 08 May 2010 - Obama [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 08:15:57

Defense secretary calls for military to tighten...

Ike warned about military industrial complex Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the nation’s military, like the rest of the nation, must rein in spending. Gates spoke Saturday at the Eisenhower President Library in Abilene, Kan. Eisenhower had warned the nation not to let the military industrial complex take over. Army Times reported that Gates said health care costs are rising dramatically as are the costs of new weapons systems. He said providing health care to veterans is a “sacred obligation.” Noting that typical annual spending increases are 2 to 3 percent, he said, “It is [more...]

Date: 2010-05-08 20:58:35

Winners, losers in $181m budget - NashuaTelegraph.com

This is a big, early “W” for many tobacco lobbyists not the least of which was Jim Demers whose client Reynolds American Inc. gave very compelling testimony to House budget writers. William Orzechowski, an economist with .... The House could be moved to accept those changes that give Secretary of State Bill Gardner more explicit and stronger authority in regulating these programs. The move to seize and lower the risk pool surpluses looks very unlikely to happen. [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 12:27:44

Napolitano, Shalala speak to American U. graduates | Washington ...

Napolitano was Arizona's first female attorney general and is the state's former governor.Earlier Sunday, former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala will speak to graduates of AU's School of Public Affairs at 9 a.m. Shalala is president of the University of Miami.She attended AU's Washington Semester program when she was a college student.On May 23, Attorney General Eric Holder will speak to graduates of AU's Washington College of [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 09:15:10

Madame Secretary: My Moscow Meeting With Hillary Clinton, by ...

It was a confident, relaxed and very focused Hillary Clinton I met up with in Moscow this week, her first trip to Russia since becoming secretary of state. She was there to help – as she calls it, "restart" – the relationship between the two super-powers. The relationship had become increasingly rocky during the final years of the Bush administration. "I will be the first to tell you," she said to students at Moscow State University, "that we have people in our government and you have people in your government who are still living in the past … They do not believe the United States and [more...]

Date: 2009-10-16 20:30:00

America's First Offshore Wind Farm Nearing Approval | Electricity ...

Compare Prices From Trusted, Reliable Electricity Suppliers. April 28, 2010 - BOSTON — It’s been stalled for nine long years, but at last the nation’s first offshore Wind Farm could become a reality, pending the final decision of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Wednesday. Salazar’s noon announcement in Boston, while still a few hours away at the time of this writing, will determine whether the ‘Cape Wind’ project will proceed. Officials in Massachusetts expressed hopeful optimism regarding the decision, noting that Mr. Salazar would most likely not have made such a trip just to can [more...]

Date: 2010-04-28 15:46:04

Barack Obama trades his stance on NAFTA [Karl]

For Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense, think Senators Biden, Kerry, Dodd or Mitchell, and former General Wesley Clark. Think former President Bill Clinton as special envoy to the Middle East (perhaps in tandem with former British PM Tony Blair). Think Nobel Prize winner Al Gore as special envoy to renewed global warming talks. Think former Senator Sam Nunn as special emissary to Putin’s Russia, or former Centcom commander Admiral William Fallon as special emissary to Iran. And still on the bench to be deployed would be Richard Holbrooke, Madeleine Albright, and Strobe Talbott. The [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 13:25:58

Steve Stewart Credigy - HQ Hillary Clinton – “My husband is not ...

Steve Stewart says you must check this video out! Hillary Clinton – “My husband is not the secretary of state. I am” – For Congolese little discussion of the student. wiki-ing Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, born October 26, 1947 is the 67th U.S. Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a senator from the state of New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd president of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, Hillary served as First Lady from 1993 to 2001. In the 2008 election Clinton was a leading candidate for the Democratic [more...]

Date: 2010-05-08 08:21:45

Clinton warns Pakistan of 'very severe consequences' if linked to ...

Pakistan faces "very severe consequences" if a terror plot like the failed Times Square bombing was traced to that country, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in remarks made public on Saturday.However Clinton also acknowledged Pakistan's increased cooperation in the war on terror, but said the United States expected more."We've made it very clear that if -- heaven-forbid-- an attack like this that we can trace back to Pakistan were to have been successful, there would be very severe consequences," Clinton told CBS's "60 Minutes" program, according to excerpts released by the TV [more...]

Date: 2010-05-08 17:27:21

The K.F. Stone Weekly: Hey: This is War!

I gotta admit that upon first hearing about Senator Lieberman's  proposal for getting around the whole Miranda rights debate for U.S. citizens --  he would simply strip those accused of terrorism of their citizenship rights and then haul their traitorous tuchises off to Guantanamo -- that I was nonplussed, agitated, furious and just plain pissed. I mean, what in the name of all that is holy ever happened to the 5th Amendment which, if I remember correctly, provides that "No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless, on a presentment of indictment of a [more...]

Date: 2010-05-07 18:08:29

Vision of Albion: New 'nuke-free' strategy blurs distinction ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently revealed, for the first time in history, the number of operational nuclear warheads held by the US: 5,113. America is the first nuclear country to do this. Other states attempt to keep such figures under wraps, while intelligence agencies invest great efforts and resources in eliciting this information. Why did the Obama Administration choose to publish the figures? And why now? The move joins previous Obama steps aimed at minimizing nuclear proliferation. The US adopted the recent unusual move in order to convey a determined message: America wants [more...]

Date: 2010-05-09 06:45:00

The Great Beyond: America's first offshore wind farm gets approved

Supporters say it could also provide 1,000 construction jobs. Ian Bowles, secretary of the Massachusetts office of environmental affairs, called the announcement “the shot heard ‘round the world for American clean energy” (NYT). “This will be the first of many projects up and down the Atlantic coast,” Salazar said at a briefing at the Massachusetts State House today, alongside Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, who praised the decision. The path to approval was not an easy one, coming after nine years of reviews, bureaucratic delays and conflict, said Salazar. Opponents have [more...]

Date: 2010-04-28 20:20:56

Honorary degree recipients announced | Student Life

Washington University announced Wednesday afternoon that it will award five honorary degrees during the school’s 149th Commencement on May 21. In addition to Commencement speaker Steven Chu, the U.S. secretary of energy and a Nobel laureate, degrees will be awarded to research physician Brian J. Druker, Joanne Knight, Richard A. Roloff and Nelson S. “Strobe” Talbott III. Chu has long been an advocate for alternative energy sources. As a member of the Obama administration, he helps carry out the president’s visions for investing in alternative and renewable energy, creating “green” [more...]

Date: 2010-05-06 02:27:32

Why Are Things As They Are? » Blog Archive » Special VE Day ...

National Union of Teachers general secretary Christine Blower was addressing members of the National Association of Head Teachers. She said 50% of England’s 17,000 schools would take part.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/10094815.stm Detroit Tears Down Schools, Builds Cop Stations: “Two vacant Detroit Public Schools buildings — the former Sherrard and Breitmeyer schools on the city’s east side — are to be demolished today, and in their place, a new Office of Public Safety headquarters will be [more...]

Date: 2010-05-07 23:39:43

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