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Feds To Investigate University Of Montana's Response To Sexual Assaults

AP | Posted 05.01.2012

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MISSOULA, Mont. — The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the way police, prosecutors and the University of Montana handle reports of sexua...

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PHOTOS: Wisconsin Budget Protests

Posted 05.25.2011

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Thousands of protesters gathered in Madison in reaction to Gov. Scott Walker's (R) controversial new budget proposal. HuffPost's Amanda Terkel report...

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Telling it Like it Is on Killing Power of Weakest Hurricanes

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph B. Treaster

After 40 years of describing hurricanes in the dispassionate, clinical terms of engineers and meteorologists forecasters have now rewritten the guidelines on hurricanes to make the impact of high winds more vivid.

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Exclusive Interview With Geoffrey Nunberg, On The Years Of Talking Dangerously

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Epithets like "socialist" and "fascist" enable people on the right to bond with each other and -- though they may not acknowledge it -- to alienate everybody else.

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