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Tribute to Marc Richards set for May 4
Professor to discuss history of Alpine skiing April 9
Historian Lissa Wadewitz to talk of 'Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits' of the Salish Sea Jan. 31
Community mourns former sports editor Bob Taylor

Robert L. 鈥淏ob鈥 Taylor, former longtime sports editor of The Issaquah Press, died Christmas Eve morning, Dec. 24, 2012, at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. He was 63.

Taylor, of Renton, was diagnosed with cancer in 2006, and was battling that鈥

The education assembly line

Last June, Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, was unceremoniously forced out office.

Those members of the university鈥檚 governing board who wanted Sullivan out, led by Helen Dragas and a few big donors, were particularly keen for the鈥

Garfinkle to read from book on early Mesopotamia Nov. 13
The Liberal Arts, Economic Value, and Leisure

The liberal arts and sciences have no economic value. Let me repeat that: none, nada. Taught in the right spirit, they are useless from an economic point of view. They are designed in fact to be downright wasteful. The liberal arts鈥 ancient roots, after all, are from a world in which a few free鈥

Neem has article published in journal 'Thought & Action'
Congressman slams US hypocrisy on human rights

A bill on human rights in Vietnam passed by the US House of Representatives on September 11 is 鈥渇lawed鈥 and based on inaccurate information, a congressman has said.

Congressman Eni Faleomavaega of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, said the Vietnam Human Rights Act of 2011(H.R.鈥

Out-of-class learning equals college credit

Tracy Martin long considered going to college but worried about the time and cost.

The 52-year-old decided to enroll after hearing about "prior learning," which lets adults earn free credits toward a degree for college-level learning that occurred outside鈥

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