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CU to examine future of Conference on World Affairs
Officials at the University of Colorado Boulder are taking a look at the Conference on World Affairs to determine whether the funding the university gives the event — somewhere around $160,000 — is a justifiable expense for the university...
IRS memos: Agency can search personal emails without warrant
Internal memos from the Internal Revenue Service indicate that the agency would try to read personal emails without a warrant...
Exxon hit with $236M court fine in NH pollution case
A New Hampshire jury has found gas company ExxonMobil liable for a $236 million cleanup bill in a groundwater pollution lawsuit...
Why thousands celebrated the death of Margaret Thatcher
Thousands of people across the world hit the streets in celebration after the death of Margaret Thatcher early April 8. As adoring eulogies rang out from leaders and the media, including President Barack Obama, general opinion was sometimes quite different...
British singer Morrissey slams Margaret Thatcher: ‘Barbaric,’ ‘a terror’
Morrissey, the British singer who rose to fame with The Smiths and has become an outspoken political activist, has ripped the legacy of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a column for Newsweek/The Daily Beast...
‘Hundreds of thousands of gallons’ of oil blanket Ark. neighborhood
Mayflower, Ark. has been hit by a large oil spill from the ExxonMobil-operated Pegasus oil pipeline, causing hundreds of thousands of gallons to pour into yards and streets, Exxon confirms...
The world on Boulder’s doorstep
As far as — well, academic isn’t the right word — intellectually minded events go, the Conference on World Affairs (CWA) is pretty chaotic...
A stuck pendulum
The loss of civil liberties, especially privacy rights, over the past dozen years is among the topics that will be discussed extensively at this year’s Conference on World Affairs (CWA) at the University of Colorado Boulder...
Media madness
"In one generation … America has become the first culture to have substituted secondary, mediated versions of experience for direct experience of the world. Interpretations and representations of the world were being accepted as experience, and the difference between...
Gun control: NRA again proposes armed guards in schools
A task force funded by the National Rifle Association has set forth recommendations on school safety and mass shootings, saying schools should train teachers to carry weapons...
Prosecutors seek death penalty of James Holmes in Aurora theater shooting
Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler has told the court that he wants to pursue the death penalty against James Holmes, the man accused of shooting 70 people in a theater in Aurora, Colo. last year...
What if North Korea doesn’t back down on its threats?
President Barack Obama is taking a calculated risk in his negotiations with North Korea. The Asian country is following a similar pattern; Obama is trying something new. Whether it will work, nobody knows...
