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On May 8, 1863, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen was founded at a meeting in Marshall, Michigan. Today, the Engineers are one of the oldest unions in the country. Telling their story gets at many of the limitations of the American labor movement. It...
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Canvas Down!

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ShinyHunters, a black-hat hacking group, has brought down Canvas across a significant portion of America's higher education system: Students were unable to access Canvas on Thursday afternoon after cybercrime group ShinyHunters shut down Penn’s access to the interface.  The May 7 data breach comes after ShinyHunters...
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Mission Accomplished

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030502-N-9214D-002 Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, Calif. (May 2, 2003) -- Sailors aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) man the rails as the ship pulls into NAS North Island to a cheering crowd of family and friends during their port visit to off-load the...
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The law question

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Official portrait of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts. John Roberts would like to make clear that there is no cannibalism whatsoever in the British navy: Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday defended the Supreme Court from what he believes are misconceptions held by the American...

The Dog Question

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Lately on my Michigan football/sports board we've had a couple or three increasingly fractious threads about the Dog Question. The Dog Question can be reduced to the following query: Is.

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