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• Bob Jones Univ. apologizes for racist policies
... instead of the Bible, according to a statement posted Thursday on its Web site. The university, with about 5,000 students, didn't begin admitting black students until nearly 20 years after the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ...
• American history museum back in business
The museum opens “a new era of education and inspiration,” Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough said. “We aspire to tell the story of America and of Americans to ourselves and to the world.” The Children’s Chorus of Washington sang the ...
• Chinese students pursuing U.S. education
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Chinese students are enrolling in U.S. universities in record numbers, encouraged by aggressive recruiting combined with China's booming economy and growing middle class. Their enrollment grew by 8 percent in the fall of 2006 and by ...
• Date rape cases still can be hard to win
Yet juries — and many judges as well — still think of rape as being only between strangers, says Lynn Hecht Schafran, director of the National Judicial Education Program of Legal Momentum, a woman’s advocacy group in New York City. “To a ...
• SC university unveils Chinese education initiative
COLUMBIA, S.C. - The new Confucius Institute at the University of South Carolina will allow more residents to learn Chinese language and culture and benefit from trading with the emerging international power, university officials said Monday in ...