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SH, 8/20/05: (Tressie) Harper to teach USM course
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http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/12430314.htm
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Journey to the Edge of the Earth: USNews 2006 Edition in my Possession
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My Barnes & Noble bookstore had 9 copies of the 2006 Edition of the USNews ratings on their shelves late this afternoon. I now own one of them. The color of the cover is yellow.
I can confirm that USM remains in the 4th tier. There are 18 schools in the 4th tier that are rated lower than USM. USM is tied...
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More Problems
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From Faculty Senate listserv:
Colleagues,
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>When the email account reconfiguration was put into effect this week, it
>also affected the way that Ocean-based webpages were displayed in the USM
>online directory (we all had a webpage URL even if it was empty). Where
>before a webpage addr... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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On Target Quote
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish. It is measured by the opposition you encounter, and the courage with which you maintain your struggle against the odds." Jerry Frenz
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fight or die on the vine
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you alll, or y'all, have fought a good fight....now is the time to to step up or die on the vine...now....now...now....
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CL, 8/21/05: College funding battle looms
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http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050821/OPINION/508210326/1046
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Pood Follies
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In the interest of public service periodic updates on the misadventures of the unfortunate dean of Arts & Letters will be offered in this space.
Today's episode finds that Pood bought each of his departments printers costing many thousands of dollars each even though they had not requested suc...
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Angeline
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Aug 21, 2005
by jealousy is spreading
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L and P on staying in the 4th tier
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I've put an entry on Liberty and Power about the new US News rankings.
You can see it at
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/14432.html
A tiny bit of damage control is going on at Clemson today, because CU has slipped slightly in the rankings, though it remains in the 2nd t...
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Parking Fees
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From USMmail:
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
Marketing and Public Relations
NEWS RELEASE
PARKING FEE INCREASE TO FUND FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS
AT SOUTHERN MISS
HATTIESBURG – Improvements to existing parking facilities and traffic flow and the acquisition of pr...
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Off Topic Posts
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Thanks to LVN and Jameela Lares for speaking in my defense. However, I'm guilty as charged. Jerry Jeff Walker is hardly germane to the USM-Shelby Thames woes. I do have a few thoughts to offer on the matter in general. While I'm a USM outsider, I am a Mississippi taxpa...
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OT Geaux Saints
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Saints 37 New England 27
Do we dare to hope, to dream?
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No Roberts
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What about a Faculty and Students Against John Roberts organization?That guy is against everything we as a university stand for.
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4th tier or top ten
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and what's all this 4th tier about? we have our top 10 rankings to worry about.....the real important things....
# 10 a new coast associate provost
# 9 the Raines thing
# 8 the dean guy in business that applies for everything elsewhere
# 7 the DANA saga
#6 the basketball coach guy....Eusta...
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Aug 19, 2005
by Board Observer
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4th Tier Continues
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Visual confirmation of the 2006 edition tonight.
USM remains in the fourth tier.
I wonder what happened? I'm sure Tim Hudson has some explaining to do...
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Graduate of Honkeytonk U
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This Won't Make SFT Happy
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"William Carey welcomes record number of students"
William Carey Enrollment
They're building an infrastructure and increasing enrollment with actual students...
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Aug 18, 2005
by beentheredonethat
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Polymerman
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Java 101
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Aug 18, 2005
by Another Retiree
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3 Babins?
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Yesterday's HA article about the strip mall boom contained quotes from USM marketing professor Ben Babin. A friend of mine who lives near Barry and Laurie Babin said that Ben is Barry's cousin, and he began at USM recently.
I know Barry and Laurie have lived here some time. Isn'...
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IHL Aug. meeting announcement
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http://www.ihl.state.ms.us/newsstory.asp?ID=347
COLLEGE BOARD WILL LOOK AT ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS
8/11/2005 (JACKSON ) -
In its regular monthly meeting next week, the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning will, among other bus...
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Kinkster Update
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Our next Texas governor, Kinky Friedman, has just reported that over the weekend he won $46,000 from a slot machine at Harrah's Casino in New Orleans. He's now trying to decide whether to shunt the money into his campaign fund, make a charitable donation to a "Hawaiian Leper Colony for U...
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Reformatted home page
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The reformatted home page looks great!
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The Darwin Awards
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The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways. Of necessity, this honor is generally bestowed posthumously.
http://www.darwinawards.com/
If we stay here long enough, will...
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Intelligent Design
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Aug 16, 2005
by Mia Kulpah
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Poster Anonymity
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An examination of the most recent five threads posted on the message board shows that 198 posts were made anonymously and 20 were made under the poster's real name (Judd posted 20, Lares posted 1, and Fose posted 1).
An examination of the most recent five entire threads of posts shows t...
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aaup-usm website
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is the fact that your website has not been updated in several months....as per your announcement of RC for his April meeting indicative of how well the aaup is or the ball.
look at all the itmes that you have posted!!
new guy....maybe under a new id.....if i used my old one you would say it is sour...
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CoAL Parking Lot to be Paved
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The CoAL parking lot is scheduled to be paved starting August 24. The project is supposed to last 2-3 weeks. Nice timing for the start of school.
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Paving Update
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Aug 16, 2005
by Third Witch
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Lott in the news
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http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20050816&Category=NEWS02&Art...
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He just doesn't get it!
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Aug 16, 2005
by Animal House
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Grant Fraud
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Check out the front page of the Wall Street Journal today for a great article on grant fraud at Cornell. In a sign of the times, the article points out that the government is having to belatedly abandon its "honor" system to police grants and go to a more formal auditing system.
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Reading List
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Aug 16, 2005
by Louis Brandeis's ghost
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And now a word from our sponsors
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Ok guys and gals, its been slow around here, thank god.
I got to looking through some of my things, and came across two articles (not literally) that I find to be one, funny, and two, smacks more of the truth than even I like to admit. So, I decided to post them here and let you decide for yourselves...
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Interim Associate Coast Provost?
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Friday before last, Jay Grimes told a packed house at Gulf Park that the name of the interim Associate Provost for the Coast would be announced in the coming week. That week has now come and gone w/no announcement. What's the whispering gallery saying on this? Have candidates been approached and turn...
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College #6?
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Just saw a memo prepared for approval of a new college (college of management or something) at USM. Will this bring the total back up to 6? Does it seem this new one will house ED?
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Aug 15, 2005
by Austin Eagle
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RECONSTRUCTION???
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RECONSTRUCTION.....WHAT SHALL IT BE? DON'T SIT ON OUR AS--ES AND LET SOMEONE ELSE DETERMINE WHAT IT WILL BE...STEP UP....IT'S BOOT CAMP TIME!
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Aug 15, 2005
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Bring me up to date
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As one of the first to leave, I am curious about a few items that haven't made it to the board either recently or ever.
First, is Jill Beneke and that whole crowd that handled the e-mail monitoring still around or has she been replaced?
Is there still unease that phone and e-mail is being monitor...
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Long ago and far away
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Aug 15, 2005
by Vanna, I'd like to buy a clue
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USNews&World Report
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I checked the USNews&World Report to see if the new rankings were available. The link below gives the 2005 ranking for 'preimum online" uses. But is this the new ranking or last year's? Can any subscribers out there answer/explain?
http://www.usnews.com/usnew...
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College Nicknames, Mascots, and Logos
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Now that the topics of evolution, creationism, and intelligent design have been thoroughly exausted over the past two days, it is time to turn our attention to another contemporary issue.
The NCAA's recent ruling this past week that Florida State University is among the 18 schools using "...
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Aug 14, 2005
by Jerry Jeff's Mamma
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Academic Bottom Line
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Colleges and universities are judged on the quality of the faculty and the quality of the student body. The University of Michigan is seen as better than Michigan State because it has a more recognized faculty and a more elite student body. To the extent that administrations are judged at all, they ar...
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Thanks for the education!
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I would like to thank several members of this board for teaching me a great deal about how academia works. I didn't know about tenure, vita, etc. before this and the old Fire Shelby board started up.
Several posters, like Invictus (I had to Google the meaning and I now love the name), LVN...
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Advocate
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Aug 12, 2005
by Young and Restless
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IHL Audit of Southern Miss
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Today a friend of mine mentioned they heard that the IHL will be conducting an IT audit at Southern Miss around the end of the year or early next year to look at IT policy and procedures with a focus on SACS related information. What is an IT audit and what does mean to me? Can anyone help with t...
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Aug 12, 2005
by police report
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LOOK AHEAD!!!
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what are your three top goals for USM?
AND
BRIEFLY DESCRIBE IN 50 WORDS OR LESS WHAT YOU ENVISION FOR USM IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS....( THE 50 WORD LIMIT IS FOR SJ AND ALL OTHERS)
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Yet Another Reason to Hate the NCAA
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Some University of Georgia football fans raised money to help bring a Boise State player's dad from Iraq to watch his son play. The NCAA says: Violation!
More NCAA BS
Yet another example of an administr...
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just heard about CoB?
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I just heard that a CoB faculty on the Coast has a job offer, and needs to respond quickly. The person is trying to see if there's any interest here at USM about retaining them, but no one can get in touch with Doty. He seems to off on some kind of interview trip himself.
That rocks!!
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Aug 12, 2005
by Are you saying that...
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More Paving ?
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I just received word that the parking lot north of the Chain Technology Center is being torn up. I don't yet know the reason.
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Aug 11, 2005
by full circle
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Construction Galore
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I saw a wonderful segment on WDAM news last night about the many great construction projects going on at USM. I'm thankful that Thames doesn't get bogged down in the pettiness that is so endemic among faculty members..He's the engineer and he keeps the university train moving forward. The faculty is...
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21st century man
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Aug 11, 2005
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Stiffed again?
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Clarion Ledger: Report shows $4.5 missing from agencies...
Doesn't USM run J.L. Scott Marine Education Center and Aquarium?
Wouldn't $211,000 buy some more books for the...
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Aug 10, 2005
by Contaglon
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Mr. Wonderful's Citation de la Semaine Award: August 7
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Polynomous called it ". . . my favorite post in a long time." USM Sympathizer called it ". . . one of the all-time great posts . . ." #1 Groupie said "Let's go with it, gang." With that introduction, today's Citation de la Semaine award honors Professor Robert Campbell with a quote by...
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And now for something completely different
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Since we seem to be in a slow news week, when even the trolls are finding it hard to find something to say, I propose a refreshment thread. Try posting Fun Stuff from Elsewhere on the Web. Here--with a great big Satire Alert--is something from the Onion.
[url=http://www.theonion.com/news/inde...
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Terry Gilliam--not!
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Aug 9, 2005
by Terry Gilliam--not!
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Is IDV a street gang?
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It seems that, although the IDV program changes its faculty hierarchy from time-to-time, except for Mark Miller no one ever gets out. This is rather reminiscent of a street gang. Now they have a new Director, and Butler is back on the faculty. There is speculation t...
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Deputy Mayor
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Aug 8, 2005
by Arnold Auerbach
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C.L.--Throwing money at education
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August 07, 2005
Let's try throwing money at education
By Sid Salterhttp://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050807/COL0412/508070310/1171/OPINION
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Hanbury's OP-ED Piece Rebutted
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http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050728/OPINION03/507280304/1014/OPINION
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Aug 8, 2005
by The Replier
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CL, 8/8/05: USM in summer building blaze
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http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050808/NEWS01/508080338/1002
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Aug 8, 2005
by Invictus' Volunteer Fire Marshal
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Hardy High West
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I understand that USM will be offering MAT 101 and PSY 110 at Oak Grove High School this fall. What's amazing is the report that the high school students will be given a "scholarship" which allows them to pay half price for the course. If I were a regular student on the main campus, I wouldn'...
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The Singing Brakeman
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Interesting Poll in today's HA
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Should public schools add “intelligent design” to the science curriculum, as President Bush suggested recently?http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=OPINION
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