Thursday
Dec092004
Thursday, December 9, 2004 at 07:49PM
- Pictured above: College freshman Nana Baffoe-Bonnie (left) and College junior Sean
Walker hold posters in front of College Hall yesterday as part of a
protest. The group gathered in response to controversial police actions
that have occurred over the past year on campus. Their sign says "Students Against Racial Profiling" [more]
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Racism In The Fields [more]
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Man Hit by Police Is Sent to Prison [more]
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African Americans and Social Security [more]
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Wole Soyinka, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, received
the University of Pennsylvania Medal for Distinguished Achievement [more]
- Absolute Proof The U.S. Government Is Corrupt. Part 1 [more]
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Fewer Mental Health Problems in New Immigrants Than in U.S.-Born [more]
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Activists protest voting irregularities outside lawmaker's office [more]
- Sickle cell study halted because subjects suffer strokes [more]
- Taye Diggs, Wife Targeted [more]
- Peltier Statement on Graham Extradition Hearing [more]
- Slim margin keeps segregation measure [more]
- Are white Utah couples 'buying' black children? [more]
- Republican Anti-Gay Ad opposing discrimination ban pulled [more]
- Henderson Voting on Settlement to Elderly Man [more]
- Victim's interracial date allegedly sparked brutal attack [more]
- Angels photographed over nation's capital? [more]
- FYI: Federal deficit, debt not the same. Q:What is the difference between the national debt and the national deficit? A: About $7 trillion. The national deficit, currently a record $413 billion, is the
difference between what the government takes in and what it spends each
budget year. The national debt, which looms at $7.4 trillion, is the
accumulation of all these year-by-year deficits and other money the
public owes. That's one big Visa bill. Like anything bought on credit,
the government must pay interest on these debts. This year, it spent
$322 billion in interest on the federal debt - the third largest
expense in the federal budget. Congress limits how much the government
can borrow, but in a bill passed last month, it raised the debt ceiling
from $7.34 trillion to $8.18 trillion - an $800 billion increase
necessary to keep the country running for the next year. [more]