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By Joseph Gerth • jgerth@courier-journal.com • November 21, 2009 Monica Marks grew up among fundamentalist Jehovah’s Witnesses in Eastern Kentucky — craving books and learning in a community where education wasn’t valued....
The teacher ran into the Monticello Middle School staff restroom and locked the door. Outside waited the 12-year-old special education student who’d just punched her in the head. At more than 200 pounds, the girl outweighed the...
You’re having a business lunch with your most important client. You take a bite of food and ... UGH! You’re munching on a mouth full of gristle that you need to spit out. So do you reach for the napkin to secretly discard the...
Sara Granda sued to take the State Bar exam and won after an online registration snafu. Sara Granda, who navigated law school paralyzed from the neck down and drew national attention when her application to take the State Bar...
Radio Free Asia, 2009-11-20 - HONG KONG— Hard on the heels of a state visit to China by U.S. President Barack Obama, authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have begun the trial of a former 1989 student...
President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key administration posts: Maria Sally Matiella , Assistant...
Merrill Yesslith, a 1991 Churchill County High School graduate, is one of 58 competitors in an international amateur piano competition - and he could use some help to win. The second Van Cliburn YouTube Contest is held yearly...
The surprising thing was that everybody seemed to be so surprised. Didn't they watch The West Wing? In episode one Sam Seaborn unwittingly sleeps with a high-class hooker called Laurie. Laurie is paying her way through law...
Sunday, November 22, 2009 News Desk NEW YORK: Prof Hassan Abbas, a prominent Pakistani writer and scholar, has been named as the Quaid-i-Azam Chair by New York’s prestigious Columbia University. He will hold this professorship...
Tony Blair No weapons of mass destruction, thousands dead, yet Mr Blair won a fourth term in 2005. He resigned in 2007, becoming the UN's Middle East envoy and adviser to J P Morgan and Zurich Financial Services. He now...
