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3 hrs ago | Freshnews

NASA Astronaut to Discuss Space Exploration at Columbia University

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.

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Related Topix: Columbia University, Astronomy, Science, Science / Technology, Space

9 hrs ago | Townhall

Armstrong Williams: What Obama Should Have Said

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.

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Related Topix: Columbia University, Joplin, MO, Opinion

13 hrs ago | Patch.com

Encino-Based Organization Jewish World Watch Helps Refugees a World Away

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.

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Related Topix: Darfur, MN

Mon May 28, 2012

Huntington News

Book Review: 'Political Woman': How The Democratic Party...

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Stephens College, University of Chicago

The Baltimore Sun

Commencement speakers: the rude, the unfunny and the insightful

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

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Related Topix: Smith College, Boston University, US Politics, US News, Joe Biden, Wedding, Virginia, Opinion

Sun May 27, 2012

Washington Times

Obamaa s road not taken

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.

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Related Topix: Columbia University, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Joplin, MO

Sat May 26, 2012

The Raw Story

Hayes' guest: 'Plutocracy doesn't work' anywhere

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.

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MSNBC

Is private equity inherently bad?

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)

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Related Topix: Amy Goodman, US Politics, US News

MyFoxPhilly

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

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, George Bush, W.

WRAL.com

Finland gunman kills 1, wounds 8

WRAL.com welcomes your comments on this story. All comments are moderated prior to publication based on our posting guidelines .

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Related Topix: Rutgers University

Fri May 25, 2012

Wall Street Journal

Model Citizen, Heartland-Born

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.

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Related Topix: Opinion

Bermuda Sun

Invest in the welfare and education of our children

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

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Related Topix: Joplin, MO

Petaluma360

PD Editorial: Hard lessons for graduates and others, too

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)

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Related Topix: Opinion

Thu May 24, 2012

Hawaii Tribune-Herald

Gender games in military

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

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Related Topix: US News

Wellington Town-Crier

'Fantasticks' Opens July 13 At Palm Beach Dramaworks

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

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, The Fantasticks , Greenwich Village (New York, NY)

Forward

Advice for Malia and Sasha Obama

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

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Wed May 23, 2012

Erie Times News

Jonah Goldberg: Politicians shouldn't pander to youth politics

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.

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Related Topix: 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Joe Biden, Orrin Hatch, US Senate, Republican, Opinion

Ventura County Star

Navarrette: The power to be stubborn

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)

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Related Topix: 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Immigration Reform, Illegal Immigration, Republican, US House of Representatives, Lamar Smith

Harper's Magazine

John R. Macarthur-The Decline and Fall (in the U.S.) of the Public Intellectual

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 .

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Related Topix: Columbia University

Tue May 22, 2012

The Heritage Foundation

Commencing Liberalism: LBJ Launches the Great Society

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.

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Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law

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