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Student body president in CA is illegal immigrant (AP)

Posted by rohit on November 18, 2010 at 3:37 am

FRESNO, Calif. – The popular student body president at California State University, Fresno has publicly revealed a personal detail he long sought to keep secret: He is an illegal immigrant

They Blew Through Millions (The Daily Beast)

Posted by on November 14, 2010 at 5:55 pm
They Blew Through Millions

NEW YORK – Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina claimed they wanted to help the world by dipping their toes into politics—but their failed races were mostly about ego. How could they have better spent a combined $217 million? How about college tuition for 23,000?

Sweet drinks widely available in schools (Reuters)

Posted by rohit on November 1, 2010 at 9:10 pm

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Despite efforts to limit their availability, public elementary school students in the United States have more outlets to buy unhealthy beverages at school, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Over a three-year period ending in 2009, more students could buy sweetened beverages like sodas, higher-fat milk and sports beverages from vending machines and school stores, they said.

Obama to test Archimedes solar ray legend (AFP)

Posted by rohit on October 18, 2010 at 8:22 pm

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama said Monday he will star on reality show “Mythbusters” next month but lamented that he will not get to blow anything up on the explosives-prone program.

Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio (AP)

Posted by rohit on September 6, 2010 at 7:38 pm

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation’s first major battle over school segregation, has died

Colo. man pleads guilty in Haiti sex abuse case (AP)

Posted by on August 18, 2010 at 6:51 pm

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A Colorado man who founded a school for street children in Haiti acknowledged Wednesday that he sexually abused several, wrapping up a case in which prosecutors said he manipulated the boys with promises of food and shelter and threatened to expel them if they refused. Douglas Perlitz, 40, pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S.

Girl, pickup driver killed in Mo. school bus crash (AP)

Posted by on August 5, 2010 at 7:01 pm

GRAY SUMMIT, Mo. – Missouri state troopers say the two people killed in a chain-reaction freeway accident involving a tractor trailer cab, two school buses and a pickup truck were a girl on one of the buses and the driver of the pickup

Obama defends education policies to critics (AP)

Posted by rohit on July 30, 2010 at 8:19 am

WASHINGTON – Challenging civil rights organizations and teachers’ unions that have criticized his education policies, President Barack Obama said Thursday that minority students have the most to gain from overhauling the nation’s schools. “We have an obligation to lift up every child in every school in this country, especially those who are starting out furthest behind,” Obama told the centennial convention of the National Urban League.

Obama to defend education policies to critics (AP)

Posted by on July 29, 2010 at 10:09 am

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is defending his administration’s education policies, responding to criticism that so far they have not substantially helped minority students.

Riding a Wave Out of M&A (BusinessWeek)

Posted by rohit on June 25, 2010 at 2:25 pm

The trail that leads from the Ivy League through law school to white-shoe firm Sullivan & Cromwell rarely ends at a remote Brazilian beach . Yet it did for Hans Keeling after just three years of working on mergers and acquisitions for the New York City law firm .

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