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...Last September, Edward Forbes Smiley III, a Massachusetts dealer, was sentenced to 42 months in prison for stealing 98 rare maps from university libraries in the U.S. and the United Kingdom between 1998 and 2005. Howard Harner, a Virginia relics dealer, was sentenced to two years in prison in 2005 for walking off with more than 100 Civil War-era documents during visits over a six-year period to the National Archives' Washington, D.C., facility. (Less than half of them have been recovered.) That same year, former Clinton national security adviser Samuel "Sandy" Berger was fined $50,000 after...
...response to Harvard’s announcement has been lackluster so far. Only Princeton and the University of Virginia have ended their early admissions programs. Perhaps other schools have not followed suit because such an important decision takes time and careful scrutiny. Nevertheless, we still hope that next year we will be able to say that even fewer students are receiving admissions decisions in December...
MACACA n. A racial slur? A kind of monkey? Virginia Senator George Allen, who used it at a campaign rally when he spotted an Indian-American volunteer from his opponent's camp, might define it as "the end of my re-election campaign...
...using military transport, which would be less expensive. Here's a third idea: purchase all the Silly String you can find, and drop it off at the closest military base to be shipped along with the same troops whose lives the stuff could save. Karen Garner Newport News, Virginia...
...bring. “We will now be out on the road a lot more, travelling through October and until December instead of winding down at the end of October,” he said, adding that College admissions officers will be travelling with Princeton and the University of Virginia, which have both also given up early admission. Fitzsimmons said the additional travel time will allow his office to “expand horizons” and visit schools that rarely or never send students to Harvard. “We have a search list of around 80,000 promising...