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Another salvo in the battle to gain control of the college admissions information process was fired Sept. 26 when a group of nearly 600 independent colleges and universities launched a new Web site that's being billed as a consumer-friendly source of information about the schools. The new U-CAN site, in development for more than a year, is being launched during a push by the federal government to get schools to provide students and parents with more accessible and relevant data. It also comes as some schools are raising questions about the usefulness of privately published rankings such as those in...

If presidents of some of the nation's top liberal arts colleges get their way, they will no longer be included in the U.S. News and World Report's influential collegiate ranking system. At issue is the "reputation survey," part of the ranking system that is filled out by the presidents of colleges included in the survey. Presidents from some of the nation's leading private and liberal arts colleges met in Annapolis Tuesday to discuss a possible boycott. Approximately 80 presidents and 71 academic deans of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges attended the annual meeting of the Annapolis Group, an organization...

Major U.S. Newsweekly Offers Sanitized Version of Racist Margaret Sanger Entirely omits racist motivation behind vehement commitment to birth control, abortion, sterilization By Elizabeth O'Brien WASHINGTON, DC, August 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The third largest U.S. newsweekly published a highly skewed historical account of Margaret Sanger, entirely omitting the racist motivation behind her vehement commitment to birth control, abortion and sterilization. U.S.News & World Report, a rival of Time magazine and Newsweek, published an article on Sunday entitled, "The Passions Behind the Pill, helping women in poverty is what drove the development of the oral contraceptive." The story makes no hint...

While the world wonders about the attack on and abduction of 15 British sailors by Iranian forces earlier this month, US News & World Report published the details of an attack by Iranian forces on Iraqi and American troops last September: As the British government demanded the immediate release of 15 of its sailors whose boats were seized by Iranian naval vessels in the Persian Gulf on Friday, U.S. News has learned that this is not the first showdown that coalition forces have had with the Iranian military. According to a U.S. Army report out of Iraq obtained by U.S....

by Mark Finkelstein October 6, 2006 - 21:36 In State of Denial, Bob Woodward claims Marine Gen. James L. Jones, the U.S. commander for Europe, said that the Iraq war is a "debacle" and that "the Joint Chiefs have been systematically emasculated by Rumsfeld." Two reporters from two publications followed up on the story. They couldn't have reached more diametrically opposed conclusions as to whether Woodward quoted Jones accurately. How's this for dueling headlines? "U.S. European Commander Confirms Quotes in Book" "NATO Chief Denies Quotes in Woodward Book" When it comes to contradictions, it doesn't get more stark and point-blank...

Things are better than you think. Yes, I know, most Americans are... convinced that the struggle in Iraq is an endless cycle of bloodshed, certain that our economy is in dismal shape.... That's what polls tell us. But if we look at some other numbers, we'll find that we are living not in the worst of times but in something much closer to the best. [snip] First, economic growth. In 2005, as in 2004, the world economy grew by about 5 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund, and the IMF projects similar growth for several years to come.... [snip]...

Susan Lindauer, a former reporter for U.S. News & World Report, whose byline appeared over some 1991 stories about the "Air Sununu" scandal, was arrested and arraigned in federal court in Baltimore on Thursday, charged with various counts related to working for and accepting payments from the Saddam Hussein regime, in violation of working with a terrorist state. In the late 1980s and early 1990s she worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Fortune before jumping to U.S. News in 1990 and then, by 1993, moving into a career as Press Secretary to a series of liberal Democrats: Then Congressmen Peter...

As soon as the filibuster deal was announced, we began to hear the argument that President Bush should sustain the spirit of compromise by naming a moderate as his first selection to the Supreme Court. This suggestion floated mostly by Democrats and faithfully carried in headlines and news reports as a neutral idea, boils down to this: It would be needlessly provocative for Bush to name a Supreme Court justice who reflects his party's basic conviction that something is very wrong with the courts.

Check out front cover of U.S. News & World Report. " How he pulled off one of history's biggest political turnarounds". The header for the main article say's, "AFTER NEARLY EVERYONE HAD WRITTEN HIM OFF, JOHN KERRY TURNED A LIMPING CAMPAIGN INTO A FORCE THAT COULDN'T BE BEAT. HERE'S HOW". I had no idea that this campaign was over. One more example of the biased media. Needless to say subscription was canceled.

Washington Whispers-The Daddy DefermentLook for Kerry campaign surrogates to step up attacks on Vice President Dick Cheney's five Vietnam War deferments, a strategy that began last week when Teresa Heinz Kerry called the veep 'unpatriotic.'Veterans for Kerry, a campaign support group, is using humor to hit Cheney in suggesting that he had a child to duck the war. 'I never knew that Cheney was the first hippie,' said one.'He made love so that he didn't have to make war.'

Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2004 11:04 PM EST U.S. News Poll: 9/11 Controversy is Clinton's Fault After a ten-day media blitzkrieg spotlighting claims by former terrorism czar Richard Clarke that President Bush dropped the ball in the war on terror, most Americans still say President Clinton and his national security team "should be held responsible for the latest 9/11 controversy" - according to a U.S. News & World Report online survey. As of Tuesday night, a combined total of 60 percent of those responding to the unscientific survey blamed either Clinton or Clarke, with two-thirds - 40 percent - saying the...

Alleged spy for Iraq gave Lockerbie depositionFormer Democrat congressional aide was at center of CIA controversy Posted: March 12, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Sherrie Gossett© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Former journalist and congressional press secretary Susan Lindauer, who was arrested yesterday on charges she acted as an Iraqi spy before and after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, came to the forefront of politics in 1994 over a controversial meeting she had with an alleged CIA operative based in Syria. That meeting resulted in her giving a deposition in the Lockerbie bombing trial that suggested Libya was innocent of the bombing. The 1994 deposition received...

On Sunday's Face the Nation, at the start of a segment on President Bush's National Guard duty, CBS's Bob Schieffer said he was "surprised, frankly," that the Guard story "has gone on as long as it has." As if he had no control over the subject matters addressed on his own show. But neither Schieffer, nor his guests on the topic, Time's Karen Tumulty and Boston Globe reporter Walter Robinson, went so far as Meet the Press panelist Roger Simon of U.S. News who remarked that, as opposed to Bush taking the nation to war, "nobody died when Bill Clinton...

The panel on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show over the weekend salivated about how Democrats should be able to use "crony capitalism" as an issue against President Bush with Chris Matthews regretting how Democrats are supposedly called "unpatriotic" when they raise the subject. Time's Joe Klein recommended: "I think crony capitalism is gonna be a big issue. All of the connections between the Bush White House and companies like Haliburton and the deals on energy and the environment and so on, I think the Democrats are gonna use that." Klein insisted this is not just bashing the rich: "This is...

The US Government will be beaming US Broadcast and CABLE news to the newly FREED Iraki public. In a segment from CNN tonight (4-15) Paula Zahn spoke with Norm Pattiz from Westwood1 Radio and and Georgetown Professor Mamoun Fandy. Pattiz is PRO and Fandy is CON. The telecasts will include ABCCBSNBC and FOXNEWS nightly news broadcasts in the hope that by viewing a "free and OPEN" news media system, this will aid the creation of a free Iraki media too..."the benefits of a FREE PRESS" as Zahn put it. Fandy also said that viewing the US news broadcasts would bias...

Despite United States Army statements that hudredes of thousands of troops could be stuck in Iraq after the war, we learn that the Office of Reconstruction thinks soldiers could begin going home just three weeks after Baghdad is defeated.What's more about half the force could be shipped home three weeks after that..

Indications from government sources are that the already heightened Code Orange security alert Washington D.C. is operating under may be increased to 'Code Red' in the next 24 hours because of a heightened concern about a possible terror attack.Whispers learns that lawmakers are being encouraged to send their families back to their home states.Other government sources are freely talking about the increased security alert possbily coming as soon as Friday.Also, Equipment that can detect chemical and biological weapons has been deployed in Washington.And some government workers have been warned that if terrorism strikes, agencies might not be able to provide...

(Dan Burton, [R-Indiana] Investigating) Allegations that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh is tied to Islamic terrorists.McVeigh the story goes, met in an Oklahoma City motel with Iraqi agents before the 1995 explosion.Part Two: Unsubstantiated reports that two 9/11 hijackers holed up with the suspected 20th hijacker Zacarais Moussaoui in the same motel room last July.Coincedence?Sources say Burton sent investigators to Oklahoma City to sniff around, tasked three staffers to the probe, and asked David Schippers, who led a house panel on Bill Clinton's impeachment, to advise.But that's not all:Burton wants more staff.While there's a lot of circumstantial evidence to investigate,...