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Lennon, Holtz among those receiving Notre Dame honorary degrees
SOUTH BEND — Retiring alumni association director Charles F. "Chuck" Lennon and former head football coach Lou Holtz will be among 12 people who will be presented honorary degrees at the University of Notre Dame’s May 22 commencement in...Tags: Human Interest, Civil Rights, Finance, Investments, England
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Watchdog group: Freedom slipped worldwide last year
WASHINGTON (AP) — The watchdog group Freedom House says 25 countries showed significant declines in democracy last year. The report's survey of 194 countries and 14 territories around the world found that China, Egypt, Iran, Russia and Venezuela...Tags: Washington, DC, China, Human Interest, Politics, Russia
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WikiLeaks nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Norwegian lawmaker says he has nominated WikiLeaks for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Snorre Valen of the Socialist Left Party says the secret-spilling website has promoted human rights, democracy and freedom of speech just like...Tags: Justice and Rights, WikiLeaks, Human Interest, Censorship, Freedom of the Press
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Netanyahu urges no let-up in world pressure on Iran after vote
ReutersJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Sunday for no relaxation of international pressure on Iran to curb its nuclear efforts after the election of a new president widely hailed as a moderate. Netanyahu said it was...Tags: Iran's Nuclear Program, Israel, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Government, Politics
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Jailed China dissident's wife decries injustice in letter to Xi
ReutersBEIJING, June 14 (Reuters) - The wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has written an open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, protesting against her house arrest and her brother's jailing, which activists have called official...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Beijing (China), China, Barack Obama, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Robert Fogel dies at 86; economic historian won Nobel Prize
Robert Fogel, the University of Chicago economic historian awarded a Nobel Prize for his data-driven reconsiderations of how railways and slavery influenced U.S. economic history, has died. He was 86. Fogel died Tuesday at Manor Care Health Services...Tags: New York City, Health and Safety at School, Productivity, Railway Transportation, Social Issues
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Tibetan self-immolations having little effect, Dalai Lama says
ReutersBy Thuy Ong SYDNEY, June 13 (Reuters) - Tibetans setting themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule are having little effect on Beijing's policies, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Thursday, while urging China to look harder...Tags: Beijing (China), China, Dalai Lama, U.S. Department of State, Entertainment Events
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Robert W. Fogel 1926-2013
Robert W. Fogel, a University of Chicago professor who in 1993 joined the Hyde Park school's line of Nobel Prize winners in economics, created a body of work that challenged widely held assumptions about American history. Early in his career, Mr....
Tags: Teachers, New York City, Railway Transportation, Career and Workplace, Social Issues
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The orgy of literary treasures bought at Sotheby's auction
Hold on to your hats: Things are about to get hot around here. Hot, that is, for people who love books, who covet literary rarities and whose pulses race at the thought of holding a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" in their very...
Tags: Authors, David Foster Wallace, Arts and Culture, Google+, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated
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Nelson Mandela, 94, hospitalized in 'serious' condition
JOHANNESBURG - Former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was in a "serious but stable" condition on Saturday after being taken to hospital with a recurrence of a lung infection, the government said. The 94-year-old, who became...Tags: FIFA World Cup, Hospitals and Clinics, Government, South Africa, Robert Mugabe
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For the record
Dole Food Co.: In the June 10 Section A, a Monday Business stock spotlight article about Dole Food Co. said that Chief Executive David A. DeLorenzo stepped down to run Itochu Corp. He joined Itochu Corp. to run the newly acquired Dole Asia Holdings. Also,...Tags: IBM, Major League Baseball Draft, College Baseball, Colorado Rockies, Baseball
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