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Man, I wish I could have seen this live.
Right now I am sitting in the kitchen looking at a well-lit Christmas tree in the family room, sweet tatah pie and homemade chocolate chip cookies sitting on the same counter and I am about to make this lil’ fire in the fireplace. Whitney is sanging her [...]
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LASMD (Laughing And Shaking My Head)
I made that one up. Too bad the following is not made up.
(F.Y.I. What is a white elephant party? Click here to find out.)
An earmark Christmas
By Alexander Bolton
December 18, 2007
Congressional negotiators have added scores of new earmarks to a massive 3,565-page spending bill that lawmakers had only a few hours [...]
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NFL Fines 5 Falcons for Vick Tributes
NEW YORK (AP) - Roddy White and four other Atlanta Falcons were fined by the NFL for violating uniform regulations with tributes to Michael Vick during last week’s Monday night game.
Vick, Atlanta’s suspended Pro Bowl quarterback, was sentenced to 23 months in prison on federal dogfighting charges the morning [...]
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More African students coming to Chinese universities
(Xinhua)
NANNING — More African students are coming or planning to come to China for higher education because of the country’s fast-growing economy and warmer ties with Africa.
“China is becoming one of the strongest economies in the world. It will be important to know the country and its language, so [...]
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I think I have mentioned this site in the past, but a friend of mine just told me about this site.
In short, it is peer-2-peer lending. More at this link (prosper.com)
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SUNO receives approval to construct Information Technology center on South Campus [link]
ASU Dedicates New Forensic Sciences Building [link]
Growth Leads to Creation of Division of Business at Xavier [link]
SPELMAN COLLEGE SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN NATIONWIDE SCIENCE EDUCATION EXPERIMENT [link]
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Middle school teacher travels horseback to teach Black history lesson
Memphis (12/16/2007) Galloping through downtown Memphis on an arabian stallion, it’s something you don’t see everyday. It’s the way New Jersey middle school teacher, Miles Dean, is journeying cross country to teach a lesson in the history of a people.
“The story of Africans and African Americans [...]
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The next time you see a commercial about schoolchildren who are forced to use outdated schoolbooks because of a lack of funding, I want you to keep stories like this in the back of your head.
LAUSD Tolls Might Surpass $210 Million
New Payroll System, Previous Errors Account For Charges
LOS ANGELES — The state’s largest school district [...]
