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Business People - Jan. 27
United Way of Washington County United Way of Washington County recently welcomed three new staff members. Kathy Saxman has been named the director of community impact and investments. She began her new role Jan. 2. Jennifer Marlatt is United Way&...
Tags: Technology, Engineering, Finance, Politics, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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W.Va. briefs
Free mulch offered to residents of Berkeley Co. MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — The Berkeley County Solid Waste Authority is offering free mulch to Berkeley County residents during the holiday season. Clint Hogbin, an official with the Berkeley County...Tags: Stanford University, Education, Chestertown, Washington College (Maryland), High Schools
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University of Texas orders evacuation, cites 'threats'
A bomb threat phoned in to the University of Texas at Austin campus Friday sent thousands of people streaming off campus as administrators warned students and faculty to “get as far away as possible.” No bombs had been found by midmorning....Tags: Students, Emergency Incidents, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Explosions
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Cornell Museum at Rollins wins prestigious grant
The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College has been awarded an Interpretive Fellowship at Art Museums from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The museum is one of only seven recipients nationwide given this honor; the others are the Metropolitan...
Tags: Education, New York City, Financial Aid, Arts and Culture, Fine Arts
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reFramed: In conversation with WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY curator Anne Wilkes Tucker
FrameworkAnne Wilkes Tucker is currently the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston where she has worked since 1976. She founded the Photography Department at the museum that now has a collection of over 28,000... -
Robert Langford Montgomery, Jr.
ROBERT LANGFORD MONTGOMERY, JR. 1927-2013 Robert Langford Montgomery, Jr., Harvard ’50 mcl, Ph.D. ’56 died on February 26, 2013 in Newport Beach, CA. A navy veteran of World War II, he was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at...
Tags: University of California, Irvine
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Gun legislation failure dismays survivor of Texas mass shooting
Irma Garcia pulled back her sweater to show me where the bullet entered her shoulder and spun her around. It then torpedoed through her body and exited near the middle of her back. "I still have problems with it," she said, standing to show me how the...
Tags: Mental Illness, Gun Control, Politics, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Interior Policy
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Wide search expected in hunt for next UC president
With no obvious inside candidate to be the next president of the University of California system, experts predict a wide search that will concentrate on similar university systems elsewhere but could also stretch beyond academia. Whoever replaces Mark...
Tags: Students, Bill Clinton, Politics, Gavin Newsom, Teaching and Learning
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UC expected to launch wide search for new president
Mark Yudof likes to point out that he was the first real outsider in more than a century chosen to run the sprawling University of California system. And he often jokes that, as a result of his leadership, it is likely to take a hundred years more...Tags: Students, Bill Clinton, Politics, Gavin Newsom, Teaching and Learning
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Lil Wayne seizure puts spotlight on rappers' use of 'sizzurp'
The powerful narcotic popped up on the cultural grid around the turn of the millennium. A Texas producer-remixer named DJ Screw paid homage to its woozy, heavy-lidded high by dramatically slowing down beats and vocals to replicate the drug's sleepwalker...Tags: Lil Wayne, Maxwell, Justin Bieber, Politics, Hospitals and Clinics
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It's official: High-speed Google Fiber heads to Texas
Google Fiber, the ultra-fast broadband Internet service developed by the search-engine company, will be expanding to Austin, Texas, in 2014. In a widely expected move, Austin city officials and Google on Tuesday morning announced the expansion of Fiber....
Tags: Apple iPad, Google Inc., Computing and Information Technology Industry
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The illusory value of the death penalty
After deciding to pursue the execution of the man charged with fatally shooting 12 people in a Colorado movie theater last summer, the prosecutor declared that "for James Egan Holmes, justice is death." By that definition, he might have added, justice...Tags: Politics, Judges, Murder, Executive Branch, Government
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