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HOUSTON, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA astronaut and New York native Mike Massimino will return to his alma mater Columbia University June 2 as part of the Dean's Day Public Intellectual Lectures.

It's the time of year when everyone dusts off Frost's "The Road Not Taken" from their high school anthologies, a time for secular sermons.

Jewish World Watch , an Encino-based organization devoted to helping victims of genocide, grew out of an idea that had its first expression at Valley Beth Shalom in 2004.

For all those on the left who ask plaintively what happened to "moderate, mainstream" Republicans who worked so well with Democrats, some would turn that question around and ask what happened to mainstream, moderate Democrats who didn't demonize the U.S. and Israel in a manner not much different from that of the current president of Iran.

Institutions from the Ivy League to the local community college scramble to lure the shiniest star they can to their podiums on graduation day.

It is that time of year again - commencement address season. It's the time when everyone dusts off Frost's "The Road Not Taken" from their high school anthologies, a time for secular sermons.

Barnard College economics professor Marcellus Andrews candidly expressed his dismay Saturday at the growing threat of America's rich having full control of the nation's power and direction.

Up w/ Chris Hayes panelists Marcellus Andrews, professor of economics at Barnard College; Joe Weisenthal, deputy editor of BusinessInsider.com; Amy Goodman, host of "Democracy Now!"; and Karen Hunter, MSNBC contributor, debate whether the private equity industry is inherently toxic to the economy, in the content of the Obama campaign's attacks on ... (more)

As Memorial Day weekend nears, veterans and the military vote have become a more serious focus in the 2012 campaign.

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As America prepares for another presidential election, there is little prospect that the sharp partisan differences that have polarized our politics in recent years will be healed.

FRIDAY, MAY 25: Last week I attended the Bermuda College's Commencement ceremony; and how lovely it was.

It's hard to believe, but those 2,000 or so stalwart high school seniors who will be taking part in graduation ceremonies all over Sonoma County today have never known life before cell phones, PCs or the TV show "Friends." They've never known a time when gasoline cost less than $1 a gallon, when Richard Nixon was still alive and when O.J. Simpson ... (more)

President Obama's commencement address to the graduating class at Barnard College earlier this month had no throwaway lines.

Palm Beach Dramaworks, West Palm Beach's only resident professional theater, will present The Fantasticks as its summer offering.

I'm a little embarrassed to admit it but I have a soft spot for commencement speeches.

This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people they are fantastic simply because they are young.

Obama was speaking at Barnard College in New York - one of the country's most respected women's colleges - to highlight one of the more far-fetched drumbeats of his re-election campaign: that the GOP is waging a "war on women." But Obama got a taste of his own medicine thanks to a silent protest staged by more than 60 students, faculty members and ... (more)

John R. MacArthur is publisher of Harper's Magazine and author of the book You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America .

It's commencement time again: rows of folding chairs, the polyester cap and gown, a dozen of your closest relatives listening intently for your name, and of course the big name speaker.