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High-profile disputes divide Portland City Hall veterans
Portland City Commissioners Randy Leonard and Dan Saltzman spent most of October sniping at each other in public or not talking in private.
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Maroon 5 will make Barton Hall at Cornell University the fourth stop of its multicity concert tour when it comes to Ithaca for a 7 p.m. concert Sunday.
Hill House head leaves nonprofit
Evan Frazier left behind careers in the hospitality and banking industries to quell some of the political tumult that often slows progress in the Hill District, one of Pittsburgh's poorest communities.
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Out'n'about: NMSU Library, alumni recognize value in hip-hop education
The NMSU Library system includes dozens of books related to hip hop culture, as well as several CDs available for checkout.
Republican wins force Obama to become conventional
Konrad Yakabuski Washington - Published on Wednesday, Nov. 04, 2009 9:59PM EST W hite House officials went to uncommon lengths to feign disinterest in the outcome of gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, even suggesting President Barack Obama was more likely to watch a Chicago Bulls game on TV than tune in to Tuesday's election results.
Israeli politician to Cornell students: Stand up for Israel
A former Israeli politician and member of the Israeli Defense Force urged students to advocate for Israel and fight the influence of radical ideologues.
Many US Children May Live In Families Receiving Food Stamps
"Research has repeatedly demonstrated that two of the most detrimental economic conditions affecting a child's health are poverty and food insecurity," the authors write as background information in the article.
RightScale has renewed its quest for The Meta Cloud . On Monday the Santa Barbara, California startup unveiled a new version of its Cloud Management Platform, an online service meant to grease the use of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and other so-called infrastructure clouds, including GoGrid and Rackspace's Cloud Servers.
Madoff's Accountant Pleads Guilty in Scheme
Bernard L. Madoff 's longtime accountant pleaded guilty on Tuesday to deliberately producing the rubber-stamp audits that helped Mr.
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First student case of H1N1 confirmed :: Binghamton University Pipe Dream
Officials have confirmed one "mild" case of H1N1 influenza on campus, and say that Health Services is seeing increased incidences of respiratory illness.
Study: In US, 90% of black kids to be fed by food stamps
Nearly half of all US children, including an overwhelming majority of black children, will eat meals at some point during their childhood paid for by food stamps, an indicator of poverty, a study showed Monday.
Bonnie Henry: UA College of Medicine's founding dean was savvy
During his time in Tucson, Merlin K. DuVal was a primary developer of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, which the state adopted in 1982.
H1N1 flu fears affect college drinking games
The rules of beer pong and other college drinking games could be changing because of H1NI flu fears.
Iconic Collegetown sign lands in Ohio museum
ITHACA -- The Johnny's Big Red Grill sign -- an icon of Collegetown for more than 50 years -- has found a new home in an Ohio sign museum.
The death of a 22-year-old man Berkeley, Calif., man, who was found dead in a parked car in the village of Cayuga on Wednesday, was ruled a suicide, Cayuga County Sheriff David Gould said today.
CU professor plugs video games into autism research
ITHACA -- For Matthew Belmonte, professor of human development at Cornell University, the issue of autism is personal.
Cornell University Library Publishes New Digitization Manual
Our friends at TeleRead.org let us know about a new digitization manual from Cornell University Library.
Body of 18-year-old Cornell student brought home
KUALA LUMPUR: The body of a Malaysian studying at the prestigious Cornell University, who was found dead in his room, has been brought back home.
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