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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Don't Ban Fraternities. Address the Bigger Problems.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, TIME
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "It's been a bad year for Fraternity Row. Hazing violence, rape accusations, and racist rants have a lot of people wondering whether fraternities still serve a useful purpose or instead create an atmosphere of fear, elitism, and danger that is the antithesis of what higher education should be about."
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, TIME
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "It's been a bad year for Fraternity Row. Hazing violence, rape accusations, and racist rants have a lot of people wondering whether fraternities still serve a useful purpose or instead create an atmosphere of fear, elitism, and danger that is the antithesis of what higher education should be about."
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David Sirota and Andrew Perez | Just Paying The Bills. Clintons Rake It in From Lobbyists
David Sirota and Andrew Perez, International Business Times
Excerpt: "While Hillary Clinton has been seeking the Democratic Party's 2016 presidential nomination, she has faced repeated questions about whether her family's acceptance of millions of dollars paid by corporate interests - through personal payments to the Clintons and contributions to the family's Clinton Foundation - had any influence on her policy decisions at the State Department."
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David Sirota and Andrew Perez, International Business Times
Excerpt: "While Hillary Clinton has been seeking the Democratic Party's 2016 presidential nomination, she has faced repeated questions about whether her family's acceptance of millions of dollars paid by corporate interests - through personal payments to the Clintons and contributions to the family's Clinton Foundation - had any influence on her policy decisions at the State Department."
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Defying US, Colombia Halts Aerial Spraying of Crops Used to Make Cocaine
William Neuman, The New York Times
Neuman writes: "The government of Colombia on Thursday night rejected a major tool in the American-backed antidrug campaign - ordering a halt to the aerial spraying of the country's vast illegal plantings of coca, the crop used to make cocaine, citing concerns that the spray causes cancer."
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William Neuman, The New York Times
Neuman writes: "The government of Colombia on Thursday night rejected a major tool in the American-backed antidrug campaign - ordering a halt to the aerial spraying of the country's vast illegal plantings of coca, the crop used to make cocaine, citing concerns that the spray causes cancer."
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The People's Manifesto on Police Body-Cameras
Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Meyer writes: "On Friday, 34 civil rights groups-including the ACLU, NAACP, and Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights-announced principles that they hope will guide national and local policy on body cameras."
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Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Meyer writes: "On Friday, 34 civil rights groups-including the ACLU, NAACP, and Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights-announced principles that they hope will guide national and local policy on body cameras."
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Journalists Are Not Terrorists
David Cay Johnston, Al Jazeera America
Johnston writes: "Governments have reasons to dirty up journalists who report truths they wish would be kept from the people. They want to discredit honest reporting that calls into question the trustworthiness of government officials and the effectiveness or legality of government conduct."
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David Cay Johnston, Al Jazeera America
Johnston writes: "Governments have reasons to dirty up journalists who report truths they wish would be kept from the people. They want to discredit honest reporting that calls into question the trustworthiness of government officials and the effectiveness or legality of government conduct."
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This Billionaire Tried to Get University Scientists Fired for Doing Their Job
Kiley Kroh, ThinkProgress
Kroh writes: "Harold Hamm, billionaire CEO of Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources, told a dean at the University of Oklahoma last year that he was so displeased by the university's research on the topic that he wanted certain scientists dismissed."
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Kiley Kroh, ThinkProgress
Kroh writes: "Harold Hamm, billionaire CEO of Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources, told a dean at the University of Oklahoma last year that he was so displeased by the university's research on the topic that he wanted certain scientists dismissed."
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Strike Against Multinational Southern Copper Continues in Peru
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Farmers and labor unions marched in the southern Peruvian district of Cocachacra on Saturday to continue the ongoing fight to shut down Tía María, a controversial mining project from the transnational U.S.-Mexican company Southern Copper."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Farmers and labor unions marched in the southern Peruvian district of Cocachacra on Saturday to continue the ongoing fight to shut down Tía María, a controversial mining project from the transnational U.S.-Mexican company Southern Copper."
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