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Gwen Ifill, a correspondent for PBS and host of "Washington Week," will moderate the Vice-Presidential debate between Delaware Senator Joe Biden and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on October 2 at Washington University. Ifill is an old hand at this sort of thing: She moderated the 2004 debate between South Carolina Senator John Edwards and Vice President Dick Cheney.

In 1963, Mollie Orshansky took a grocery list, performed some simple arithmetic, and immortalized herself in American economics. She became “Miss Poverty.” Forty-five years later, her grocery-list formula still is the official definition of poverty in America. Using Ms.

NYU students blogged about it first. Now the Guilfoid (apparently a student gossip blog at Guilford College in North Carolina) claims to have heard two bed bug reports at the school in 24 hours. The GW Hatchet (an independent student paper at George Washington University in Washington D.C.) also

Former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales told investigators that he could not recall whether he took home notes regarding the government's most sensitive national security program and that he did not know they contained classified information, despite his own markings that they were "top secret...

If you were in the St. Louis metro area over the Labor Day holiday, you didn't have much of an excuse not to go out at least once over the three-day weekend. There was a lot happening, and here's what you may have missed.

TGen and Washington University researchers discover new approach... http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml Sun, 08/31/2008 - 23:00 (The Translational Genomics Research Institute) Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute today announced a new approach to treating endometrial

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Nathan Grossman at the GWHatchet.com is reporting that George Washington University has canceled next week’s Fall Fest appearance by mashup champion Girl Talk. Apparently there were concerns over security and on-stage antics.

With all the horses lined up in the gates, we're just waiting for the starter's pistol. Following Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama's pick Saturday of Delaware Senator Joe Biden as a running mate, Republican Presidential candidate John McCain decided to take the political pissing contest to the next level today by naming his running mate the night after Obama's speech.

As promised, a map of cheap eats in the vicinity of Washington University in honor of the first day of classes. The map is not meant to be exhaustive -- for example, I included only one of the Thai restaurants in the Delmar Loop -- but if you noticed something I missed, please drop me a line, and I'll consider adding it.