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Never too cool, or old, for school

Associated Press
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - CANBERRA, Australia -- A 94-year-old great-great-grandmother who left school at the age of 12 appears to be the world's oldest recipient of a master's degree, an ...
Rap, Uzis and the Internet

Daily Herald Editorial Board
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - "... If this account doesn't reach $50,000 in the next 7 days then a murderous rampage similar to the VT shooting will occur at another highly populated university. This...
Court rules against Plame, despite public records

Associated Press
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) -- The CIA can force Valerie Plame, whose career became national news after her once-clandestine position was leaked, to remain silent about the exact leng...
Musharraf suffers another setback

Associated Press
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release on bail of a senior opposition leader who was sentenced to 23 years in prison for tryi...
Senate passes spy bill

Associated Press
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Senate, in a high-stakes showdown over national security, voted late Friday to temporarily give President Bush expanded authority to eavesdrop on suspe...
Statement behind Dow drop

Associated Press
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street plunged anew Friday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 280 points after comments from a major investment bank exacerbated ...
Teen gets life in prison for killing principal

Associated Press
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - BARABOO, Wis. (AP) -- A 16-year-old was sentenced Friday to life in prison with the possibility of parole for the shooting death of his high school principal. Eric Ha...
Court sides with Congress on raid

Associated Press
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The judicial branch offered the executive branch a civics lesson Friday: The Justice Department can't rifle through a congressman's legislative documents, ...
Lander to give Mars its first library

Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- When NASA's newest Mars lander departs Earth this weekend, it will be carrying the words and art of visionaries from Voltaire to Carl Sagan....
Bush invites nations to confront climate change

Associated Press
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Bush invited representatives of major industrialized and developing countries to a fall climate change summit in Washington the same week that th...

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