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WASHINGTON – Fuzzy math, Illinois State University's president called it. "Political theater of the worst sort," said the University of Washington's head.
President Obama's new plan to force colleges and universities to contain tuition or face losing federal dollars is raising alarm among education leaders who worry about the threat of government overreach. Particularly sharp words came from the presidents of public universities; they're already frustrated by increasing state budget cuts.
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"God's curse on them for generations. ... They betrayed Islam."
"May the devil shit on their graves. Is that what a daughter should be? Would a daughter be such a whore?" -- Muslim dad who honor killed his three daughters and wife.
"I would do it again 100 times," said Mohammad Shafia, who murdered his THREE daughters in honour killing for dating the wrong boys.
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Is a video that is satire of the burqa worthy of death threats for the creator?
Good for him! And I helped!
[AP's formulaic algorithm for critiquing CEO pay is revealed.]
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Still less than her billionaire boss, but still. Can anyone fail to see the irony of President Obama inviting Debbie Bosanek to sit by his wife for his State of the Union Address to use her as an example of tax unfairness, when the Buffett aide likely earns enough to put a bullseye on her back for the tax hikes Obama has long called for on higher earners?
FTA: "New evidence has emerged that supporters of the former Libyan leader, Col Gaddafi, have been tortured while in detention.
The BBC has been told by inmates at a jail in Misrata that they were beaten, whipped and given electric shocks.
The head of the city's military council has dismissed the allegations.
United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay has called on Libya's transitional government to take full control of all prisons."
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"An aspiring Queens rapper went on a crime spree that ended when he opened fire on an off-duty NYPD lieutenant — and the cop shot him dead early Thursday, police said.
Christopher Kissane, 22, was felled on a Brooklyn street by a shot fired from 76 feet away that hit him beneath the right eye, police said.
Kissane died later at Brookdale Hospital, leaving his neighbors on 68th Road in Middle Village to wonder what went wrong.
“He was going to release an album,” said a 15-year-old who declined to give her name. “He’s an amazing rapper.”
The NYPD did not identify the 41-year-old lieutenant who fired the fatal shot. He was not injured in the deadly incident, which remains under investigation.
The drama began at 2:45 a.m. when Kissane, dressed in a black hoodie and wearing a red bandana over the lower half of his face, tried to rob a 38-year-old woman at gunpoint on Myrtle Ave. in Ridgewood, Queens, cops said. She escaped.
Ten minutes later, Kissane tried again, this time targeting a 56-year-old woman who had stopped her car at a traffic light. When she saw him approach with gun drawn, she hit the gas and drove off, but not before Kissane fired a shot that hit the back of her vehicle, police said...." (More)
"Hey, Mr. Kotter, I got a note!"
A spokesman at JFK Medical Center in New Jersey told the Star-Ledger newspaper that Hegyes arrived at the hospital in the morning in full cardiac arrest and died. He was 60.
Invoking the salute made notorious by Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich (later adopted by the Islamic militant group Hezbollah), Palestinians used the “Hitlergruß” — or “Hail Hitler!” — salute during Fatah celebrations in Lebanon.
