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Listen Up! More Colleges Look to Gov't for Student Loans
Colleges looking to help students in a financial squeeze are increasingly turning to the federal government for support. From NPR: For decades, the federal student loan program has paid private lenders and banks a subsidy for loans they make to college students. But the Obama administration wants to bypass banks and have the federal government…
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Better Than Sears: Annie Liebovitz Snaps First Family Portrait
The world-renowned photographer took a photograph of Malia, Sasha, Michelle and Barack Obama in the Green Room of the White House. From Newsweek: The famed photographer, in the headlines lately for drama over her personal finances, shot the official Obama family portrait, which was posted on the White House’s Flickr account this morning. Leibovitz has…
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Listen Up! Olympic Concerns Raised by Rio Violence
Recent violence in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas have raised security concerns for the 2016 Olympic Games. From NPR: Just weeks after Rio de Janeiro was awarded the 2016 Olympics, a deadly outburst of violence descended on the Brazilian city. Warring drug gangs left two dozen people dead, including three police officers whose helicopter was shot…
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Sexual Orientation Added to Hate Crime List, Awaits Obama's OK
Attacking an individual based on his or her sexual orientation has been added to the list of hate crimes by the Senate and now awaits President Obama’s signature. From CNN: The bill is named for Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming teenager who died after being kidnapped and severely beaten in October 1998, and James Byrd…
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Losing Isiah: Thomas Salty with Magic Memoir
Uh oh. A few hoops legends are at odds over a book. Isiah Thomas feels betrayed by Magic Johnson’s various accusation in the soon-to-be released “When the Game Was Ours”, a memoir written by he and Larry Bird documenting the rivalry between the Celtics, Lakers and Pistons during the 1980s. In the book, Johnson alleges…
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Weezy F. Baby May Spend Quiet Time Up North
Even Mr. Carter didn’t say “Skate, Wayne!” on this one. Rapper Lil’ Wayne pleaded guilty today to weapons’ charges stemming from a search of his tour bus following a show in New York City in 2007. There is supposedly credible DNA evidence linking him to the firearm—though attorneys are still battling over the veracity of…
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Listen Up! Swine Flu Lives Longer Than Expected
In a new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has found that those who contract the H1N1 virus may still be contagious 24 hours after their fever symptoms have cleared up. Their findings are based off a study conducted at the US Air Force Academy on newly-arrived cadets who contracted the illness…
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Key Sens. May Tell Obama to Fall Back on Health Care
In the battle for health care reform, President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have more to worry about than support from across the aisle. Members of their own party, concerned about re-election in some cases and the content of the bill in others, may prove obstacles along the way. From the AP: These…
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Check It Out: Michelle Obama, Hula Hoop Champ
Today, First Lady Michelle Obama took part in a healthy living intiative for kids which included hula hooping, double dutching and some inexplicable running around that, if nothing else, gets the blood pumping and calories burning. And yes; she was getting it in while dressed and just having had her hair did. The video isn’t…
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HAHAHAHA! MSNBC Thinks Black Reverends Look Alike
MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer got her Blacks mixed up—via a teleprompter shenanigans—and called Jesse Jackson Rev. Al Sharpton today. The Buzz says: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Some things are more worth laughing at than getting bent out of shape about. Check out the utterly humorous fail at Gawker.
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