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Sexual Assault: Never The Victim’s Fault
          It has been said that a society is ultimately judged by its crimes, and perhaps rape is the crime by which our society will be evaluated.  The definition of sexual assault as provided by Brown University is as follows: “Sexual assault is the legal term for rape, and it [...]

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Go to
http://dsc.discovery.com
Copy and paste into the search:
New Earth-like Planet ‘Habitable’
Read for yourself.

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Hi, it’s Tim from Pandora,
I’m writing today to ask for your help.  The survival of Pandora and all of Internet radio is in jeopardy because of a recent decision by the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC to almost triple the licensing fees for Internet radio sites like Pandora.  The new royalty rates [...]

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Introduction
            This paper is an attack on the orthodox Aristotelian virtue ethics tradition.  In this essay I will argue that virtue ethics (as envisaged by Aristotle) has a seriously flawed understanding of the notions of moral responsibility and blameworthiness which emerges from their self-undermining account of how one develops morally. 
            Before we continue, I’d [...]

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There is one more person checking the skunk than I thought.
That is great, if I could I would rescind  my vote that the skunk is dead because of that 4th vote.
I’m not being facetious.
Cheers!
william

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Next week the Daily Skunk will become theStudentLoanSkunk.com

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In about December, when I was having such a hard time getting all my loans together and was trying to figure out exactly how my disaster occured, I started busting the chops of my financial aid advisor on the school as lender program (simply asking simple questions).
It was obvious to me immediately, that he didn’t [...]

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Check this out, I hope they investigate the last school I attended.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/11/national/main2673044.shtml
This is the story from the link above.
Another Settlement In Student Loan Probe
Sallie Mae Agrees To Pay $2M Into Educational Fund, Change Some Business Practices
ALBANY, N.Y., April 11, 2007
(AP) The nation’s largest student-loan provider will alter its business practices and pay $2 million into [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 5, 2007
CONTACT:
Kate Bedingfield, 919-636-3163
JOHN EDWARDS STATEMENT ON RECENT STUDENT LENDER SCANDALS
Chapel Hill, North Carolina - In response to recent scandals over colleges’ ties to student lenders, Senator John Edwards today called for fundamental reform of the student loan programs: 

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From Studentloanjustice.org
This from our friends at the New America Foundation…
NEWS SCOOP: Stock Options Provided to Financial Aid Officers by Student Loan Provider
Higher Ed Watch Investigation Prompts Columbia University to Put Aid Administrator on Leave; Prompts New Round of NYS AG Subpoenas as Well
Stephen Burd [...]

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