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ESPN Front Row - Bristol, Ct., United States - April 15, 2013
"We've run trivia contests, poll questions — a few of which have turned into segments on studio shows — and Twitter chats around big events," said...
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Huffington Post - New York, Ny., United States - April 15, 2013
"Liberal education is an approach to learning that empowers individuals and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity and change."
Few...
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South China Morning Post - Hong Kong, China - April 14, 2013
"At that moment I felt that the fire of war had burned its way to the front door of my own home." These were the words of the sixth son of a wealthy...
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Des Moines Register - Des Moines, Ia., United States - April 12, 2013
A film based in Iowa's state women's prison in Mitchellville won Best Documentary last weekend at the Julien Dubuque International Film Festival.
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Oskaloosa News - Oskaloosa, Ia., United States - April 12, 2013
Grinnell College men's basketball player Jack Taylor '15, who made international headlines last November with his record-breaking scoring feat, was...
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ISU Voice - Pocatello, Id., United States - April 11, 2013
Donna Lybecker is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, specializing in international relations, comparative politics, and...
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Dr. Thomas Cech '70 and 56 Nobel Laureates Urge Congress to Halt Budget Cuts to Science Research [News]
YubaNet.com - - April 10, 2013
A group of 57 U.S. Nobel Laureates is urging members of Congress to preserve federal funding of long term scientific research for the 2014 fiscal...
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OAH - San Francisco, Ca., United States - April 10, 2013
Asylum and Sovereignty in the 1970s
and 1980s
Chair:
Jana Lipman, Tulane University
Homefront of the Hostage Crisis: The Contested Status
of Iranian...
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LOCUS - - April 10, 2013
Terry Ballantine Bisson was born February 12, 1942 in Kentucky. After attending Grinnell College in Iowa from 1960-62, and batting around LA and NY,...
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Eva Bard '56 [News]
Richmond Times-Dispatch - Richmond, Va., United States - April 10, 2013
Nazi persecution swept Mrs. Bard from Europe to the United States. Born to a Jewish family in Strasbourg, France, she was 6 years old when she, a...
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The Examiner - San Francisco, Ca., United States - April 9, 2013
At Grinnell College, I joined the choir and fellow choristers standing next to me told me I sounded like "opera man", with vibrato and all. At the...
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Sam Tanenhaus '77 to leave 'New York Times' Book Review, become 'writer at large' for the paper [News]
Capital - New York, Ny., United States - April 9, 2013
We were just forwarded a memo from The New York Times announcing that Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review, is stepping down from...
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Holland Sentinel - Holland, Mich., United States - April 8, 2013
The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series of Hope College will feature Edward Hirsch at the Knickerbocker Theatre, 86 E. Eighth St., 7 p.m. April 18....
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Huffington Post - New York, Ny., United States - April 8, 2013
Given the subpar unemployment rate -- it's been hovering just below 8 percent for months -- and the worsening conditions for the poor, some say the...
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The Washington Post - Washington, D.C., United States - April 7, 2013
Ken Adelman is the former ambassador to the United Nations and former director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. His wife, Carol,...
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The Independent - Grand Island, Neb., United States - April 6, 2013
Former Grand Island resident Kevin Humiston was appointed as a municipal judge in Parkville, Mo., in March.
Humiston is a 1993 graduate of Northwest...
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Marjorie Littlehale '40 [Obituary]
NJ.com - Cranford, N.J., United States - April 5, 2013
She spent her growing up years in Crystal Lake, Iowa and moved to Forest City for high school. She graduated from Grinnell College in 1940 with a...
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NPR - Washington, D.C., United States - April 4, 2013
Stephen Nash, a curator from the , recently visited the Moscow Gem Museum to see the work that got Konovalenko in trouble with Soviet authorities....
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Steven Nelson '64 [Obituary]
Washington Post - Washington, D.C., United States - April 4, 2013
Dr. Nelson worked at the Federal Trade Commission's bureau of economics for 36 years before retiring in 2006.
Steven Robert Nelson was a native of...
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The Fix - New York, Ny., United States - April 3, 2013
The Grey Area, a documentary about women in prison, illustrates the complex factors that land many women behind bars. The film's director, writer and...
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