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  • Editorial Students help expand scholarship opportunities

    Washington state’s Opportunity Scholarship program is right to turn to its scholars for help broadening and deepening the program’s ...

  • Minnesota Legislature Jobs jobs jobs Pioneer Press editorial

    As they review lawmakers' performance at the Minnesota Legislature, business advocates have new worries about the impact of higher taxes on the state's competitiveness and job growth. They're worthy worries: Weakening the business climate weakens the jobs climate. "Every Minnesotan will pay more -- in the form of higher taxes, higher prices or higher fees," says the ...

  • Rebuilding in Oklahomas Tornado Alley

    At day’s end Monday, the number killed by a massive tornado was reported to be at least 51, with more expected as rescue workers dug through the wreckage. That was more than twice the number later confirmed dead. A spokeswoman for the examiner’s office blamed it on ...

  • SEC should adopt Franken plan on credit ratings agencies

    A sensible, bipartisan solution to the conflicts of interest that too often arise between credit ratings agencies and the firms that hire them to judge their products should be adopted by the Securities and Exchange ...

  • Tax reform Are you really a believer

    Apple CEO Tim Cook, center, flanked by Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's chief financial officer, left, and Phillip A. Bullock, Apple's head of Tax Operations, are sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent ...

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Les cousins [Blu-Ray]

Les cousins [Blu-Ray]

Although it was not intended, French New Wave director Claude Chabrols first two films--Le beau Serge and Les cousins--were released within weeks of each other in Paris, sometimes playing at cinemas that were only a few blocks apart, which only reinforced the notion that the ... ...

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  • Obama Rejects Perpetual War But Questions Remain About Targeted Killings

      President Obama gave a major speech in Washington today on US counterterrorism policy. The speech contained a number of significant announcements, including notice that the administration would resume releases of Guantanamo prisoners "recommended for transfer" to other countries and a pledge to clarify the process and improve transparency with respect to the use of unmanned ...

  • I am a Lymphoedema Sister

    Contributed by : Carol Gould I thought I would re-publish this article from a year ago as local UK elections loom on 2 May. The present hysteria surrounding the rise and rise of UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, fascinates me as an American because the Tea Party rose from disatisfaction with both Democrats and Republicans. The Tea Party now has six US senators and helped shift ...

  • Partners not pledges needed to fight HIV

    case about whether the U.S. government can require organizations to denounce prostitution as a condition of funding for their international HIV/AIDS work. As those on the ground who work in programs trying to stop the spread of HIV ...

  • Dubais child labor complicity

    To ensure that gold businesses in Dubai respect and protect rights, due diligence procedures should be made mandatory and include measures to check for child ...

  • Inspiring greatness from black graduates

    Although the vast majority of black children complete high school, most do not complete college. Many first-generation college students have fewer financial, family and community resources to persist through the more challenging aspects of college, such as dealing with financial obligations, meeting academic requirements and finding opportunities for postbaccalaureate ...

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