The New York Times
Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, book review

"'God makes stars,' the pioneering movie producer Samuel Goldwyn once said. "It's up to producers to find them." In this era of D.I.Y. stardom, you don't need God or Goldwyn to grab your 15 minutes; you need only a Webcam and the minor technological wherewithal to upload your own fabulousness."
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Christian Science Monitor
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. - This is a year in which veteran actress Julie Christie moved us as a woman losing touch with her life ('Away From Her'), the charming Keri Russell touched us as a pregnant Southern woman in a bad marriage ('Waitress'), and a group of passionate book lovers made us laugh and cry ('The Jane Austen Book Club')."
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The Hartford Courant

"A gifted musician with a bright smile and a well-honed sense of social justice, Chase Parr arrived at Wesleyan University last year determined to change the world."
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Republican-American
Features Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"There's a story told about MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer discovering that Greer Garson, one of his pet leading ladies, had married her 'Mrs. Miniver' co-star Richard Ney."
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Democracy Now!
Debate includes Francisco Rodriguez, assistant professor of economics

"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was handed his first electoral loss since winning the presidency seven years ago when he narrowly lost a controversial referendum on 69 proposed changes to the constitution earlier this month."
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Bloomberg News
Quotes Francisco Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies

"President Hugo Chavez's first defeat in a national election isn't likely to stop his drive to socialize Venezuela's economy."

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The Economist
Quotes Francisco Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies

"On referendum night, December 2nd, a giant, inflatable Chavez doll lay face-down and semi-deflated on a Caracas street."
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The Hartford Courant
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"When Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert sat across from each other in a semi-darkened theater and discussed movies it was more than a handy way to figure out how to spend your movie bucks."
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New York Times
Quotes Francisco Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies

"As petrodollars stream into oil-producing countries, Western officials have begun to demand greater accountability for how they are spent."
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Los Angeles Times
Book reviewed - Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"'Movie stardom,' writes Jeanine Basinger very close to the end of 'The Star Machine,' a smart, deeply researched but also chatty and fast-flowing history of the phenomenon, 'is still -- and will always be -- half-calculated and half-serendipitous.'"
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Wall Street Journal
Wesleyan included

"Colleges are moving to eliminate -- or at least ease -- student debt as pressure builds in Washington for them to spend more from their endowments to help families afford the rising cost of school."
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Book Forum
Review written by Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth

"Sarah Kofman had something to say, about philosophy, about psychoanalysis, about art, about women."
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The Jewish Ledger
Features President Michael S. Roth

Torah study a part of routine for Wesleyan's first Jewish president

"Michael S. Roth, who in 1978 received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University, became the school's 16th president - and first Jewish president - this past summer."
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Scientific American
Interview with Gary Yohe,Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

"The preponderance of scientific evidence makes clear that the earth is warming as a result of human activity. Now policy makers are faced with the question of what to do about it. Scientific American spoke with three leading economic policy thinkers on the topic of how cutting emissions of greenhouse gases would affect the global economy."
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The Hartford Courant
Quotes Jonathan Cutler, associate professor of sociology and American studies

"It isn't just the card dealers at Foxwoods Resort Casino looking to the United Auto Workers for job security."
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Washington Post
Cites research by Y. May Chao '06

"Eating disorders rose significantly among American boys between 1995 and 2005, according to a study that examined weight control behaviors among high school students."
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The Hartford Courant
Editorial on Frank Sica '73 and Jonathan Soros '92

"Starting next fall, Wesleyan will join a handful of private colleges and universities around the country offering war veterans a much-deserved opportunity: scholarships to further their educations at private institutions of higher learning."
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News-Times (Danbury)
Features Laura Grabel, Fisk Professor of Natural Sciences at Wesleyan University

"The brave new world of stem cell therapy -- where injected cells rush to the scene of damage or disease in our bodies and provide a fix -- may still come true, but it is years away."
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U.S. News & World Report
Features Jelle de Boer, Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Emeritus

"When John Hale was an archaeology graduate student at Cambridge University in the 1970s, he was taught that the ancient Greek accounts of the events and rituals at the Oracle of Delphi were fundamentally flawed."
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The Hartford Courant
Frank Sica '73 and Jonathan Soros '92

"Wesleyan University cherishes diversity, but one group does not have much of a presence at this liberal arts college: veterans."
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E-Ticket ESPN Magazine
Features Bill Belichick '75

"MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- The New England leg of my quest ends here, where the only line of resistance is a smallish college girl standing behind a tall desk."
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CNN Money
Quotes Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

"Kyoto, the far-reaching agreement reached in 1997 intended to reduce global carbon emissions, is nothing compared to what could be coming next as the world's governments confront the ecological damage from global warming and debate what needs to be done to fix it."
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Wall Street Journal
Quotes Jonathan Cutler, associate professor of sociology

"In the days before mounting a strike against Hollywood studios, film and TV writers did something that might be considered unusual in other labor disputes: They completed - and were paid for - a lot of work that was delivered to the companies they were about to picket."
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USA Today
Two Wesleyan alumni create scholarships

"Concerned, and in some cases angry, that the federal GI Bill no longer covers the cost of college for many veterans, philanthropists are stepping forward to fill in some of the gaps."
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The Village Voice
Features Scott Higgins, Associate Professor of Film Studies

"Any fan of Singin' in the Rain knows all about Hollywood's chaotic transition to sound: microphones hidden in flowerpots, starlets squeaking through musical numbers, out-of-sync dialogue."
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Houston Chronicle
Features Franklin Sirmans '91

"When Franklin Sirmans curated Everyday People a few months after arriving at the Menil Collection last fall, he revealed an eye that was as discerning as it was inclusive."
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The Hartford Courant
Matthew Lesser '09 wins alternate seat on Middletown's planning and zoning commission

"Democrats, who conceded the mayor's office in this election, held onto their common council majority in convincing fashion Tuesday night."
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Newsday
Features Dennis Robinson '79

"The board of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority Wednesday approved Dennis R. Robinson as its new chief executive officer and president."
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The Hartford Courant
Quotes William Herbst, John Monroe Van Vleck Professor of Astronomy

"Until recently, Comet Holmes was a faint and nondescript mass in the sky, visible only by telescope when it did appear."
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New York Times
Features Zilkha Gallery exhibition by Alfredo Jaar

"I have always had my doubts about the ultimate purpose of political art. My skepticism stems from a feeling that there are more effective forums for the expression of outrage at social, political and humanitarian injustices than the quiet rooms of a museum."
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The New York Times
Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, book reviewed

"On the roll call of names that made Hollywood shine in its golden age, Dennis Morgan comes well down the list. Yet Morgan, a vaguely handsome leading man with a pleasant tenor voice, generated solid box office returns from the mid-1930s right through the 1940s."
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Space Daily
Quotes Roy Kilgard, Assistant Astronomer, Astronomy Department

"In athletic events such as swimming or running, a world record will often stand for several years before it's broken."
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Plenty Magazine
Features Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

"Working on the UN?s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) can be a thankless job-until the Nobel Prize committee takes notice, that is."
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New Haven Register
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"Say what you will about the devil, he certainly puts himself out there."
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ZNet
Quotes Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

"Scientists say they can never be sure exactly how extreme global warming might become, but that's no excuse for delaying action."
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The Hartford Courant
Matthew Lesser '09

"Three years ago, Wesleyan student Matthew Lesser was managing a staff of 50 and raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for John Kerry."
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The Hartford Courant
Features Michael S. Roth, president

"As a lanky undergrad at Wesleyan University, Michael Roth and a few like-minded students once took over the president's office. It was the late 1970s, and they were protesting the university's investment in companies that did business with apartheid South Africa."
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The Hartford Courant
Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, book reviewed

"Mae West once said, 'It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it. And how I look when I do it and say it.'"
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The Hartford Courant
Q&A with Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"Jeanine Basinger, head of the Film Studies Department at Wesleyan University in Middletown, and the director of that university's film archive, is a respected teacher, a mentor to hundreds of film-industry artists, a trusted protector of hundreds of irreplaceable cinema artifacts, and one of the world's best film historians."
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Los Angeles Times
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"Deborah Kerr, the acclaimed British actress whose versatile talent and refined screen persona made her one of Hollywood's top leading ladies in the 1950s in films such as "From Here to Eternity," "The King and I" and "An Affair to Remember," has died. She was 86."
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Middletown Press
Peter Patton, vice president and secretary of the university, honored

"'It's not easy to see the bacteria polluting the Connecticut River - but you sure can smell it,' said Megan Hearne."
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Toronto Sun
Features Hari Krishnan, artist in residence, dance

"Recipes for Curry! That's the title of internationally acclaimed Toronto-based choreographer, dancer and teacher Hari Krishnan's production on stage tomorrow, Friday and Saturday at Harbourfront's Enwave Theatre."
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New York Times
Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

"The dual winners of the Nobel Peace Prize may be united in concern about global warming, but they differ starkly in style and, at times, in scientific substance."
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Middletown Press
Features Gus Seixas '10

"Pungent smoke circulated through misty air Wednesday afternoon as Wesleyan student Gus Seixas dug into the thick trunk of a fallen cottonwood tree with a canoe adze, a wood-scooping tool."
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Middletown Press

"With a new roof and floor foundation installed, construction is underway at O'Rourke's Diner."
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The Hartford Courant
Includes Colin Theys '07

"At about 3:30 a.m., the 'Banshee!!!' production crew waits around in a former chicken farm in Moosup. Actor Greg Nutcher can't quite get the hang of spitting out his mouthful of blood properly."
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"Antiwar demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie Across the Universe. A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in In the Valley of Elah."

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Middletown Press
Features Rev. Joan Burnett, Wesleyan's Protestant chaplain

"When God called the Rev. Joan Burnett to ministry, she said she listened; but she was more than a little surprised when the call came for her to attend Yale Divinity School."

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Business Week
Features Jonathan Schwartz '87

"Sun Microsystems (JAVA) Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz writes about a lot of things in his well-read blog, but rarely about himself."
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CBS News Blog - Couric & Co.
Features Paul Dickson '61

"Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the world?s first man-made satellite. Five hundred miles above the Earth, it traveled at a speed of 18,000 miles an hour and circled the Earth every 96 minutes."
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New Haven Register
Professors Jan Naegle and Laura Grabel honored

"The 2007 version of Connecticut's Register and Manual is being dedicated to stem cell researchers in the state and to five Connecticut soldiers who died in the war on terror in the past year."
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The Hartford Courant
Includes Paul Dickson '61

"The launch of Sputnik 50 years ago Thursday meant different things to different people: testimony to humanity's ingeniousness, a salvo in the Cold War, a wake-up call to Americans."
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The Bee (Oregon)
Features Lisa Kagan '01

"Exploring and preserving family history is often considered the perfect project for those in retirement. Time to work on memoirs makes it possible for many retirees to create family archives that can be enjoyed for generations to come."
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New York Times Magazine

"Extra Credit" photo shoot with Wesleyan students.
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Ottawa Citizen
Quotes Richard Slotkin, professor of American studies

"The Wild West was tamed long ago and you won't find too many cowboys these days, except maybe on the rodeo circuit or at a linedancing class."
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Los Angeles Times
Writte by Michael S. Roth, Wesleyan president
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CNN Money
Quotes Jonathan Cutler, associate professor of sociology

DETROIT -(Dow Jones)- Wall Street is keeping an eye on the Detroit auto makers' drive to transfer retiree health-care liabilities to a union-managed trust for more than one reason.
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WNPR
Features Steve Stemler, assistant professor of psychology

HARTFORD, CT - The Army has now employed the help of Wesleyan researchers who are helping them find individuals with "mental flexibility."
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The Hartford Courant
Stephen D. Crites, Hedding Professor of Moral Science and Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus

Stephen D. Crites of Lyme, Hedding Professor of Moral Science and professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Wesleyan University and accomplished musician and singer, died Thursday of prostate cancer. He was 76.

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Newsweek
Quotes Michael Sciola, director Career Resource Center

Sept. 10, 2007 issue - One week into his premed classes at Washington University in St. Louis, Ryan Jacobson was rethinking his plan to become a doctor.
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The Hartford Courant
Features Ashley Casale '10

Wesleyan student Ashley Casale could have organized a campus demonstration to protest the Iraq war.

Or stood on a city street corner, holding a sign.
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The Hartford Courant
Features Art Feltman '80

The political career of Rep. Art J. Feltman, D-Hartford, seemed undone in 2004 by a private bout of emotional exhaustion and a bumbling performance on the House floor during a high-profile debate.
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The Hartford Courant
Book review of Steve Almond '88

Steve Almond has a big mouth. A smart mouth. A dirty mouth. A mouth that roars. Spectacularly.

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The Hartford Courant
Features I. Charles Mathews '74

His supporters and his opponents agree on one thing. The I. Charles Mathews that led Hartford's city council 20 years ago was a tough, skilled politician; a self-made man who got things done and often rubbed people the wrong way doing so.
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The Hartford Courant

Roslyn Carrier-Brault lives in the city and works at Wesleyan University.

But she rarely ventured very far into the North End, a neighborhood of handsome, turn-of-the-century architecture, vibrant, locally-owned businesses - and a bad reputation.
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New York Times
Quotes Peter Rutland, professor of government

HONG KONG - On the way to the annual summit meeting of Asia-Pacific leaders in Australia, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has scheduled a brief stop in Jakarta on Thursday. High on his agenda: the signing of a $1 billion arms deal that includes supplying Indonesia with two Kilo-class submarines, the first of a small fleet of the vessels.
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The New York Times
Features and endorses I. Charles Mathews '74

Of all the state capitals across the country, Hartford is the poorest, and it is difficult to think of a single problem it does not have. The city?s need for leadership moved voters to change the city charter in 2002 and switch to a strong-mayor form of government.
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Middletown Press
Features Wesleyan students filming in Portland

PORTLAND - Sinister black plastic blocked out the horror of what was going on inside the Portland police station Friday.

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Middletown Press
Features Lauren Kunzik '06

MIDDLETOWN - It was a day of firsts in Lauren Kunzik's classroom at Wilbur Snow Elementary School. For her 19 kindergarten students, it was the first day of their school careers and for Kunzik it was the first day of her career as a schoolteacher.
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WNPR's Where We Live
Features Laura Grabel, Fisk Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of biology

In 2005, Connecticut invested $100 million dollars over a ten year period to fund stem cell research. Several states had made such investments, following President Bush's 2001 ban on federal funding for research using newly created embryonic stem cells.
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Marietta Times
Features Ashley Casale '10

PARKERSBURG - A recent high school graduate, a college freshman, a furniture designer, a landscaper, a chef and a recent college graduate, strangers before May, are walking, one step at a time, across the nation as they March for Peace. They walked across the Parkersburg-Belpre Bridge Tuesday as they followed U.S. 50 east.
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Middletown Press

MIDDLETOWN - Laura Heath and Nina Terebessy live over 700 miles away from each other and had never met in person before the two moved into their dorm room at Wesleyan University on Tuesday.
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The New York Times
Quotes Dr. Amy Pollick '96

ATLANTA - The chimpanzees, after spotting the humans at the corner of their compound, came over to us with their arms outstretched and their palms turned upward. This was the chimps' way of asking for a banana - and a lot more, as researchers here at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center have discovered.
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New Haven Register
Features Bill Rodgers '70

Bill Rodgers reads from his running logs, listing his final time and how many miles he rolled up before and after that September day in 1978, but he cannot remember who pushed him along during the first New Haven Road Race.
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The New York Times
Features Will Swofford '06

"IT took 38 years, but Ira Cohen?s cult film, 'The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda,' which was first screened in 1968 at the high point of the psychedelic hippie head rush, is now commercially available. Given the close calls, the long absences and his chaotic archival system, Mr. Cohen, 71, is a little surprised himself."
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The New York Times
Quotes Francisco Rodriguez, assistant professor, Latin American studies

"City's Routine Will Adjust to New Time Zone," read Thursday's headline of Ultimas Noticias, the most widely circulated daily in Caracas. The tabloid, sympathetic to President Hugo Chavez, went on to describe the benefits of his plan to move clocks forward by half an hour in a bid to improve the ?metabolism? of his fellow citizens.
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International Herald Tribune
Quotes Francisco Rodriguez, assistant professor, Latin American studies

How much can governments do to fight poverty? In South America, a couple of answers are emerging in the growing economies of Venezuela and Brazil. Both governments have publicly pledged billions of dollars to raise living standards - but have they succeeded?
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Hartford Courant
Quotes Laura Grabel, Fisk Professor of Natural Science

The bright blue stickers are slapped onto every computer, refrigerator and centrifuge in Ren-He Xu's lab at the University of Connecticut Health Center, proudly proclaiming they are eligible for use in the creation of human embryonic stem cells.
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Los Angeles Times
Quotes Michael S. Roth, president

Books are beautiful. But if the cost of even a small print-run gets expensive for some publishers, shouldn't book lovers give online publishing a chance?
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Middletown Press
Wesleyan donates furniture

PORTLAND - The families displaced by a fire Monday morning that scoured their apartment building are being helped financially and emotionally, thanks to the generosity of their neighbors.

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Middletown Press

MIDDLETOWN - After nine seasons as an assistant coach at St. Lawrence University, Jodi McKenna has been named faculty head coach for women's ice hockey at Wesleyan University, it was announced by Athletics Director John Biddiscombe. She replaces 12-year veteran head coach Donna Wright, who announced her resignation in June for personal reasons.
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ABC News
Quotes John Paoletti, Kenan Professor of the Humanities

Theories about a secret code hidden in Leonardo da Vinci's iconic painting "The Last Supper" sparked an international obsession when it was featured in "The Da Vinci Code" book and movie.
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New York Post
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

If anybody has forgotten how much wild living Angelina Jolie has packed into her 32 years, it's conveniently tallied up like a kinky scorecard in a new book that sizes her up as having more talent as a publicity machine than an actress.
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Middletown Press
Features Wesleyan's Prospect Math and Science Program

MIDDLETOWN - Reading about Greek history and mythology can be a rewarding endeavor, but it becomes an entirely different experience to step into the pages of the books and actually feel the rocky, arid soil underfoot while climbing the steps of the Parthenon.
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Associated Press (as carried by The Hartford Courant)
Features Ashley Casale '10

Two teens from separate ends of the nation are marching across the country for peace, hoping to gain followers and attention with each step they take.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
Quotes Lily Milroy, professor of art history and American studies

Throughout the four years Thomas Eakins studied in Europe, he pined for Philadelphia, the Schuylkill, and the serenity he found in rowing
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The Hartford Courant
Wesleyan's Long Lane Farm participates

The towering black clouds, rumbling thunder and wind gusts would have been a perfect backdrop for the three Weird Sisters conjuring their ominous prophecies for "Macbeth" on a Scottish heath. But the weather threatened to cut short ARTFARM's EcoFestival Sunday evening.
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Playbill
Features Lin-Manuel Miranda '02

In the Heights, the hip-hop and salsa-infused Off-Broadway musical about denizens of the uptown Manhattan 'hood of Washington Heights, ends a six-month run July 15, prior to a wider life on Broadway.
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The Hartford Courant
Features Amy Bloom '75

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - With the demise of "Gilmore Girls" in May, Connecticut no longer is represented on TV by the fictional town of Stars Hollow, but the state figures prominently in a new Lifetime series focusing on the fictional New Haven Psychiatric Associates
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Inside Higher Ed
Quotes Suzanne O?Connell, associate professor of Earth & environmental sciences

Department heads, accustomed to running their own meetings, mostly listened along with provosts, deans and other faculty members during a training workshop in Seattle this week geared toward advising academic leaders in the science, engineering and math fields on how to manage their divisions while keeping diversity in mind.
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Nature
Quotes Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

Most of the armed conflicts in eastern China over the past 1,000 years were triggered by food shortages caused by climate, say researchers
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New York Daily News
Quotes Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

"Hot enough for ya?"
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Providence Journal
Quotes Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

Can you imagine Rhode Island with no lobsters in its waters? With winters dominated by much more rain and much less snow? With fruit crops unable to flourish and beaches being washed away?
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Newsday
Quotes Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

By the end of this century, life on Long Island could be significantly warmer and wetter, with more smog and fewer maple trees, songbirds and lobsters, according to a report released Wednesday on the potential effects of climate change on life in the Northeast.
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The Hartford Courant
Features Green Street Arts Center, and Janis Astor del Valle

From the windows of the Green Street Arts Center in Middletown, Janis Astor del Valle sees a new North End emerging.
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Chicago Tribune
Features Ashley Casale '10

LOVELAND, Colo. -- Against the majestic backdrop of the Rocky Mountains, in the far eastern corner of Colorado where the land begins to flatten into a vast golden prairie, two teenagers trudge along the weed-bitten edge of an isolated highway
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WNPR
Features Suzanne O'Connell, associate professor of Earth & environmental sciences

Suzanne O'Connell, associate professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, is the co-primary investigator of a grant from the National Science Foundation titled: 'ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation and Dissemination Award: Building a Community of Women Geoscience Leaders.'
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Martha's Vineyard Times
Features on Peter Corbin '68

There are some subjects about which I can carry on a conversation and sound like I know what I am talking about. Art is an area where I wade very carefully.
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The News & Observer
Quotes Ruth Striegel-Moore Walter A. Crowell University Professor of the Social Sciences

At Celebrity Models, the talent is getting thicker. The Atlanta-based agency casts models for videos and magazines.
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Middletown Press
Features Long Lane Farm (Wesleyan students)

MIDDLETOWN - An intense flash of lightning illuminated the dull overcast sky as Nicole Sugerman turned over the palm of her hand to feel the rain-drops that were just beginning to land.
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The Herald (New Britain)

MIDDLETOWN - Where else but WESU-FM radio (the voice of Wesleyan University) can you hear an hourlong business show during a break from a Frank Zappa marathon?
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The Middletown Press
Feature William '52 & Susan Wasch

MIDDLETOWN - To some, life is a challenge; to others, it's a gift. One local couple, Susan and William Wasch, treat every day like a prize.
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The Free Lance-Star (VA)
Features Matthew Sharpe, assistant professor of English

The author of the new satirical novel 'Jamestown' sees parallels between the invasion of Iraq and the establishment of the Virginia colony.
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The Hartford Courant
Quotes Jonathan Cutler, associate professor of sociology

The United Auto Workers and other unions have begun organizing at Foxwoods Resort Casino, a massive undertaking that Foxwoods is vigorously fighting with appeals to its 10,000 employees.
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The Hartford Courant
Features Lin-Manual Miranda '02

'In the Heights,' the feel-good, hip-hop-meets-Broadway musical which began at Wesleyan University, is moving to the big street.
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Chicago Tribune
Quotes Stephen Angle, associate professor of philosophy

BEIJING -- Confucius is coming out of retirement.
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Middletown Press

Besides the culmination of the Class of 2007's years at Wesleyan, its commencement Sunday marked the end of an era at the university.
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Middletown Press

MIDDLETOWN - Never forget your dreams. Participate. Serve others - on whatever level. Take risks. These were the words of wisdom heard Sunday by Wesleyan University graduates.
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Los Angeles Times
Op-ed by Kelly Greenhill, assistant professor of government

'I THINK PEOPLE can differentiate between a television show and reality,' the lead writer of '24' recently told the New Yorker magazine. He was responding to criticism of '24's' frequent depiction of torture and suggestions that it leads viewers to accept torture as a legitimate and effective interrogation tool.
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Middletown Press

MIDDLETOWN - The Green Street Arts Center received a 'special gift' this week from Liberty Bank.
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Washington Post
Quotes Scott Plous, professor of psychology

Like lunar and solar eclipses, there are some Washington phenomena that are so common they ought to have distinct names.
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The Colorado Springs Business Journal
Written by John Hazlehurst '62

In an interview published last week in New York Times Magazine, author/screenwriter Nora Ephron was asked whether there are any advantages to growing older.
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Economist
Quotes Stephen Angle, associate professor, philosophy and East Asian studies

'Study the past', Confucius said, 'if you would define the future.' Now he himself has become the object of that study.
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The Hartford Courant
Op-Ed written by Giulio M. Gallarotti, associate professor of government

Environmentalists' moral diatribes against business practices seem to have fallen on deaf ears. They have finally learned to appeal to managers' wallets rather than their hearts, and so have embraced more mainstream business prescriptions.
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NorthJersey.com
Quotes Martha Crenshaw, Colin & Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought

What do homegrown terrorists living in the United States have in common?
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Playbill
Features Lin-Manual Miranda '02

Leslie Kritzer and Lin-Manuel Miranda have won the 62nd annual Clarence Derwent Awards that are presented by the Actors' Equity Foundation to honor 'the most promising female and male performers on the New York metropolitan scene.
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New York Times
Quotes Francisco Rodriguez, assistant professor of economics and Latin American studies

President Hugo Chavez is deepening efforts to assert greater control over the economy by dictating changes to the operations of a large Argentine-controlled steel maker and threatening to nationalize banks controlled by financial institutions from the United States and Spain.
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Middletown Press

MIDDLETOWN - Two Wesleyan University students are hoping to get the community to come together and take a walk for wellness on May 12. Two university seniors, Naomi Takahashi and Kara Schnoes, are putting on the first annual Wellness Walk/Run.
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The Republic (AZ)
Quotes Matthew Sharpe, assistant professor of English

HISTORIC JAMESTOWNE, Va. - As she visits the colony here, Queen Elizabeth II is seeing a Jamestown - and an America - much changed since 1957, when she last helped celebrate the nation's first permanent English settlement on the cattailed banks of the James River.
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The Santa Barbara Independent
Will Engel '01 interviews Tierney Sutton '86

In the search for a perfect night of jazz, one need look no further than the Lobero Theatre on Saturday, May 5, when Grammy nominee Tierney Sutton will be performing with her band.
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Middletown Press

MIDDLETOWN - Wesleyan students erected a memorial to honor those men and women who lost their lives in the Iraq War, as well as to raise consciousness for the human cost of the conflict.
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Middletown Press
Features Douglas Bennet, Wesleyan president

MIDDLETOWN - Weeks after his successor was named and his home was opened to the public, Wesleyan President Douglas Bennet sat down for breakfast with a few friends. He discussed his goals, his friends and what lies ahead.
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Middletown Press
Features Wesleyan Without Borders, student group

MIDDLETOWN - Each week, a small group of civic-minded students gather in the living room of a small brick house on the edge of the Wesleyan University campus. The students, led by Wesleyan senior Kimberly Greenberg, focus their discussions on ways to help less-fortunate people in faraway lands.
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New York Magazine
Quotes Dani Shapiro, visiting assistant professor of letter

Creative-writing teachers are regularly faced with disturbing student work. But is the writer dangerous?
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The New York Times
Essay written by Will Okun '96; won a trip to Africa with reporter Nicholas Kristof

Let's not mince words: I am charismatic, handsome, muscular, stylish, articulate, hilarious, intelligent, tenacious and innovative. Oprah wants me on the show, non-profits are desperate for my endorsement and young people hang on every word I speak.
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Middletown Press
Features Michael Roth '78, incoming Wesleyan University president

MIDDLETOWN - The new Wesleyan University president stopped by campus Friday afternoon to talk to reporters and greet his new students.
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Variety
Features Lin-Manuel Miranda '02

"In scanning the legit landscape, Variety zeroes in on 10 burgeoning forces who operate both behind the scenes and under the spotlight. While some have already made waves, their future in New York theater looms as even more promising."

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The Hartford Courant
Features Ellen Thomas, research professor of Earth & environmental science; Johan Varekamp, Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science; and Emily Avener '09

"MIDDLETOWN -- Long Island Sound generates more than $5 billion a year for the regional economy and defines Connecticut as surely as the Charter Oak. It holds some 18 trillion gallons of water and is one of the nation's largest and most significant estuaries."

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The Washington Times
Quotes Laura Grabel, Fisk Professor of Natural Science

"Liz Lerman has been a pioneer and nonconformist dancer-choreographer throughout the 30 years she has led the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange."

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San Jose Mercury News
Features Jacob Bricca, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film Studies

"Focusing on Palo Alto and Santa Cruz, 'Indies Under Fire: The Battle for the American Bookstore,' a 56-minute documentary by Jacob Bricca, gives a poignant look at the death of the independent bookstore."

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The Register-Guard
Features Natalia Alonso '00
"Natalia Alonso was just another pretty ballerina before a knee injury in high school made her start thinking seriously about her choice of work."

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Middletown Press
Features Wesleyan students

"Saturday was 'Step it Up!' Day, a day given over to developing environmental awareness in general and the reduction of carbon emissions in particular."

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New Haven Register
Quotes Johan Varekamp, Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science

"Connecticut did nothing as the state became increasingly vulnerable to slowly rising oceans. Residents apparently failed to notice a rise of about 1 foot since 1900, or did not care as salt marshes disappeared beneath Long Island Sound."

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Science
Quotes Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

"An international climate assessment finds for the first time that humans are altering their world and the life in it by altering climate; looking ahead, global warming's impacts will only worsen."

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Middletown Press
Features Dani Shapiro, visiting writer

"MIDDLETOWN - Best-selling author Dani Shapiro used to get upset when people said they read her book in one sitting. "'I couldn't put it down,' they'd say, or, 'It was such a fast read.'"

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Scientific American
Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

"From space, climate change is obvious. For more than 20 years satellite images have shown springtime greenery bursting forth earlier and earlier in that season."

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The Hartford Courant
Features Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

"Gary Yohe, a professor at Wesleyan University, has been in Brussels this week, helping to draft the final wording of the latest global warming report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

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Denver Post
Mentions Jessica Posner '09

"A Seattle theater company commandeers a different Laundromat every day for a week. A man in a New York art gallery endeavors to sing 365 bad karaoke pop songs consecutively while becoming progressively naked."

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Salon.com
Matthew Sharpe, assistant professor of English

"New York is crumbling, the rabbits will kill you, and all hopes seem to rest with Pocahontas in Matthew Sharpe's post-apocalyptic, back-to-the-future tale."

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Middletown Press
Features Suzanna E. Henshon '93

"When people grow up, they can lose their inner child. But Suzanna E. Henshon held onto hers and turned it into a popular book series for children."

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USA Today
Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

"Earth is spinning toward many points of no return from the damage of global warming, after which disease, desolation and famine are inevitable, say scientists involved in an international report due Friday on the effects of climate change."

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NPR - All Things Considered
Includes Wesleyan

"State governments have taken the unusual step of funding biomedical research ? usually done with federal grants ? because of federal political decisions to restrict funding for embryonic stem-cell research."

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Science Daily
Dana L. Royer. assistant professor of Earth and environmental sciences

"New calculations show that sensitivity of Earth's climate to changes in the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) has been consistent for the last 420 million years, according to an article in Nature by geologists at Yale and Wesleyan Universities."

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The Hartford Courant

MIDDLETOWN -- As a student at Wesleyan University in the 1970s, Michael Roth was an intellectually curious student with a keen sense of humor who could discuss 19th-century philosophy and the poetry of Bob Dylan with equal aplomb.
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Los Angeles Times
Review of Matthew Sharpe, assistant professor of English

"'Jamestown' is a wild, violent, mordantly hilarious retelling of how the first permanent English settlement in the New World came into being, and unlike the version extolled in countless middle-school textbooks, Matthew Sharpe doesn't gloss over its influence on those who were already there."

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Nature
Co-authored by Suzanne O'Connell, associate professor of Earth & environmental sciences

"Family issues can cause women to abandon academia at every rung of the career ladder. Policy-makers have addressed some ways to get more women on to the lower rungs of the ladder. But solutions at the higher steps ? tenure and beyond ? are proving a little more difficult."

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New York Magazine
Matthew Sharpe, assistant professor of English
"After Matthew Sharpe?s two Random House books tanked, his next novel, The Sleeping Father, was rejected by every major publisher."

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The New Yorker
Features Lin-Manuel Miranda '02

"The life of twenty-seven-year-old Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer of and lead actor in the new musical ?In the Heights??about the ups and downs of the residents of a block in Washington Heights?seemed pretty serene the other day as he did some errands in the old neighborhood.

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McClatchy Washington Bureau
Quotes Jelle de Boer, Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Emeritus

"WASHINGTON - Tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, floods, wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis: Mother Nature seems to have it in for our world these days."

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Middletown Press
Wesleyan's CFA receives grant

"One organization is helping keep the Middletown area, 'a vibrant art community.'"

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St. Petersburg Times
Quotes Douglas Foyle, associate professor of government

"WASHINGTON - It's the other surge.
After years of taking junkets to vacation spots like Hawaii and Paris, members of Congress are lining up for a new destination: Baghdad."

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St. Petersburg Times
Quotes Douglas Foyle, associate professor of government

"WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has always occupied a unique place in the Bush administration. Even while being grilled by Congress in January over the troop surge in Iraq, Rice's popularity outside the nation's capital remained nearly double that of her boss."

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The Hartford Courant
Features Jesse Nasta '07

"Wesleyan University senior Jesse Nasta is this year's recipient of the Connecticut DAR Nutmeg Award. The award honors outstanding local historians and teachers who add zest to history."

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The New York Times
Mentions Francisco Rodriguez, assistant professor of economics and Latin American studies

"The plot would seem to come right out of a novel in which the reader does not know whom to believe."

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Middletown Press
Features Aaron Sussman '07 and Tom Coen '07

"MIDDLETOWN - Wesleyan University seniors Aaron Sussman and Tom Coen want to incite readers to learn more about social and political issues and to take action after they read articles that he and others write for a new prog