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How do you get to run in the Boston Marathon? Cheat

How do you get to run in the Boston Marathon? Cheat

Runners World reports today that it's uncovered cheating at qualifying marathons, thanks in part to a Facebook post a man in Pennsylvania made last year, lamenting that his kid's absence from school to watch him in the marathon wouldn't be excused.
by Bob Collins

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Despite attention to primaries, your vote doesn’t matter, delegate says

Despite attention to primaries, your vote doesn’t matter, delegate says

Curly Haughland, of Bismarck, N.D., makes a compelling reason why you shouldn't pay much attention to those lectures about your duty to vote in primary elections: You don't matter.
by Bob Collins

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Caledonia 90-year-old makes a stand for music in school

He lives in an old farmhouse on 40 acres he bought for $5 an acre years ago. That's valuable land these days, and so Barth has given it away to provide more music for kids in school, the newspaper reports today.
by Bob Collins

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Pilots rally to lift a Kenyan man with a dream

Pilots rally to lift a Kenyan man with a dream

Maybe Gabriel will achieve his dream of flight someday, maybe not. Many of his neighbors watch his attempts and laugh at his folly. But he now has the knowledge to build a plane at his fingertips, courtesy of two brothers from Dayton who heard similar laughter, and present-day pilots who know how to make it stop
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Russian jet in mock attack on U.S. destroyer

Even Americans who lived through the duck-and-cover years of the Cold War must wonder every now and again whether we really have any clue at all how close the United States is to a shooting war with a super power at any given moment.
by Bob Collins

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Don’t stop hating Kobe Bryant

It is the end of the NBA season and the end of the line for "Black Mamba," Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers, the recipient of a generation's worth of hate, not always because of basketball.
by Bob Collins

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Sprint pulls ‘ghetto’ ad

If you spend any time at all watching commercial TV, perhaps you've marveled at the notion that some people get up and go to work in the morning and sit in meetings and come up with the most inane ideas to turn into a product commercial. Someone got up one morning, went to work, and thought this was good idea.
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The day Anita Hill, Nina Totenberg changed the nation

The day Anita Hill, Nina Totenberg changed the nation

We may never again hear the kind of testimony at a hearing for a Supreme Court nominee that we heard in the October 1991 hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas.
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Retired prof rips St. Olaf on sexual assault response

Victims of sexual abuse and assault at St. Olaf in Northfield had hoped a meeting to address complaints that the school was ignoring them would begin to change things on campus, but after a closed meeting they say they're 'disheartened' by the response.
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