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S.B. mayor candidates to debate Thursday
SOUTH BEND — Voters will have an opportunity Thursday to size up the three candidates running to be South Bend’s next mayor. Democrat Pete Buttigieg, Republican Wayne Curry and Libertarian Patrick Farrell will debate from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at...Tags: Libertarian Party, Politics, Clubs and Associations, Indiana University South Bend, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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Leno named winner of Harvard's Hasty Pudding award
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts native Jay Leno is Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year. Hasty Pudding Theatricals is the nation's oldest undergraduate drama troupe. It says "The Tonight Show" host was selected because he has...Tags: Johnny Carson, Entertainment, The Tonight Show (tv program), Jay Leno, Massachusetts
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Court hears challenge to $65M Facebook settlement
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Harvard University classmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg want to throw out a $65 million settlement of their lawsuit that alleged the social network was their idea. Lawyers for twins Tyler and Cameron...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Media Industry, Lawyers, Judges, Mark Zuckerberg
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Singer Shakira accepts Harvard honor
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Grammy Award-winning singer and philanthropist Shakira has been honored by Harvard University. The Harvard Foundation, the university's center for intercultural arts and science initiatives, gave Shakira its 2011 Artist...Tags: Education, Awards and Prizes, Human Interest, Jackie Chan, Will Smith
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University presses: a view from the academy
The front table in Hyde Park's Seminary Co-op Bookstore has been a must stop for book browsers for book lovers since the early 1970s. It is always brimming with more than 100 newly published scholarly works vying for readers' attention. Most of the titles...
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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: Awards and Prizes, Health and Safety at School, Social Issues, Johns Hopkins University, New York City
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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....
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FBI probing Pa. Supreme Court justice over fees
The FBI is investigating Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery over fees his wife received for referring clients to personal-injury law firms, The Inquirer has learned. The investigation is examining 19 referral fees paid to Lise...Tags: Legal Service, Labor Legislation, Judges, Colleges and Universities, Hofstra University
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A virtual milestone
Library hounds, research heads and history buffs, Robert Darnton has been reading your diary. Darnton, the university librarian at Harvard University, envisioned a digital library available free of charge to the public that would provide online access...
Tags: Education, Walters Art Museum, Arts and Culture, West Point, 2012 Democratic National Convention
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Obama to name Furman as chief economist
ReutersBy Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate longtime adviser Jason Furman to be his new chief White House economist, an administration official said. Furman, who will replace economist Alan Krueger...Tags: National Economic Council, Lawrence Summers, Alan Krueger, Gene Sperling, U.S. Senate
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Graduation bittersweet for Greencastle-Antrim High School's Class of 2013
roxann.miller@herald-mail.comIt was a bittersweet graduation for Greencastle-Antrim High School’s Class of 2013. For the 228-member class, the absence of one graduate was not far from anyone’s mind. As the seniors walked to Kaley Field for Saturday’s...Tags: Graduation, Human Interest, The Pennsylvania State University, Colleges and Universities
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