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In 2003, Chicago’s black community still didn’t know what to make of Barack Obama. Just a few years before, Obama had tried to unseat Rep. Bobby Rush, a former Black Panther and a hero of the civil rights movement. During that election, he’d been derided
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This was printed from The Business Journal The winning MBA team came from the University of Chicago, and included a 2001 Wake Forest alum, Tom Batten. The winning MBA team came from the University of Chicago, and included a 2001 Wake Forest alum, Tom Bat
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• Dept. of Followups #1: The Next auction ended after 4 days with all tables sold and a total of $339,000 raised for the University of Chicago Cancer Center. • Dept. of Followups #2: Baconfest Chicago saw all its tickets snapped up within the first three
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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Apparel, Inc. (NYSE Amex:APP), a vertically integrated manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of branded fashion basic apparel, announced Jordan Schiff joined the Company as GMM effective February 13, 2012. In that
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CHICAGO (CBS) — An outspoken University of Chicago political scientist says talk of deploying bombs over Iran is really an effort to secure tougher international sanctions against that country. As WBBM Newsradio’s John Cody reports, political science pro
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The universal quest to attain work-life balance just got a jolt of advice from an interesting source: Justice Antonin Scalia Speaking to law students at the University of Chicago last week, Scalia urged the future lawyers to look to join firms with a mor
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Sara Spurlark influenced thousands of students as a Chicago Public Schools teacher and administrator before joining the University of Chicago to help launch what is now the school's Urban Education Institute. Her own education began in segregated schools
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There is a cliché in Washington. There are two things you do not want to see made: sausage and laws. To those we may add a third: Barack Obama's decisions. Americans were warned by his opponents that Barack Obama was unprepared to be president. He had ve
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(Crain's) — PrepMe Inc. , an online test-preparation startup, has been sold to Naviance, a division of Cincinnati-based education technology provider Hobsons Inc. Chicago-based PrepMe, founded in 2005 by entrepreneur Karan Goel, quickly grew to be one of
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WINSTON SALEM, N.C. , Feb. 20, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A team of MBA students from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business walked away with a $75,000 cash prize and the Cheerwine Cup on Saturday, Feb. 18, after winning first place in an intern
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Children who play with puzzles between ages 2 and 4 later develop better spatial skills, a study by University of Chicago researchers has found. Puzzle play was found to be a significant predictor of spatial skill after controlling for differences in par
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The Wake Forest University Schools of Business Center for Retail Innovation presented the 22nd Annual Wake Forest Marketing Summit, which concluded with an awards gala on Saturday, Feb. 18. More than 60 team applications were received for the three-day c
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Next's innovative Dutch auction for two-tops, one per night of service, with proceeds to go to the University of Chicago Cancer Center where Grant Achatz was treated, is almost over. It's not exactly clear how many of the 73 tables are left; the auction
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I had this thought again last week when I took the long train and bus ride from Northwestern campus to the University of Chicago’s library, in search of the original text of the following Urdu poem by Azra Abbas. (Translation by C.M. Naim) Everything sta
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CHICAGO (CBS) — Seven people were killed and 18 more were wounded – including a Chicago Police officer – in a violent weekend on the streets of Chicago. One of the incidents left two people were dead, and five others injured, at a South Shore neighborhoo
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Main Category: Psychology / Psychiatry Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 20 Feb 2012 - 1:00 PST email to a friend printer friendly opinions An important context for figuring out problems through reasoning is puzzle play, say
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Kidney transplant patients Paulette Behan of West Chicago (center), and Don Terry of Joliet (right), and transplant surgeon Dr. John Milner discussed the role that Loyola University Medical Center doctors, patients and donors played in the world’s longes
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Chicago Police investigate the multiple shootings that left two dead and five injured on the 2500 block of E. 79th street Sunday night.
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CHICAGO (STMW) — Two people are dead and five others were wounded in a Sunday night shooting on the South Side, authorities said. The shooting happened at 6:56 p.m. in the 2500 block of East 79th Street, said police News Affairs Officer Daniel O’Brien, c
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Thanks in large part to a generous donation to the University of Chicago Paris abroad program, a group of two dozen students (twelve from the University of Chicago and the rest from Sciences Po in Paris) were graciously invited to accompany Professor Lis
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