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The 2005 Slate 60: Pledges

and Annette Simmons—$50 million to the University of Texas ... gifts to the business school by 50 percent. Bass is a member of Stanford’s board of trustees, and Anne is a member of the board of direct... read more

Shoestring Living: Be grateful every day

Back in the land where we didn’t have kids that participated in unimaginably expensive sports or wished for gifts like iPod Touches, my husband and I actually purchased gifts for each other. I am a go... read more

Slain Gunman Identified, 2 Teens Hurt In Maryland School Shooting

Authorities credited the school resource officer at the school of roughly 1,600 with stopping the rampage from going further. Austin Wyatt Rollins, 17, walked into the school he attended around 7:50 a ... read more

The DVD Wrapup: Woody’s Magic, Where I Leave You, Stonehearst Asylum, TMNT, Iguana, Altina, Ed Woods Porn, Doby Gillis … More

Wharton ... Swim’s “Childrens Hospital,” the NBC sitcom, “Parks and Recreation” and as a regular on the “Funny or Die” website. On Comedy Central’s anarchic “Kroll Show,” he takes on several very diff... read more

The Master of the One-Liner

"He possessed all the gifts I, and all other ... I took the money and bought land." He disliked talking about his wealth. Once, just before a tour of Vietnam, he was asked if it was true that he was w... read more

The Importance of Making the Moral Case for Immigration

In each case, success was achieved principally through arguments focused on universal moral principles and on the common humanity the rest of us share with the group in question, not arguments emphasi... read more

Waynesboro native Jessie Dickey is gracing Broadway

“The cast is spectacular and the entire experience has been fun and fulfilling,” according to Dickey, daughter of Barry and Sarie Dickey of Waynesboro and a 1997 graduate of Waynesboro Area Senior Hig... read more

Americans Heavier Than Ever, But Most Still Say Their Weight Is "About Right"

A Gallup poll reports that on average Americans weigh almost 20 pounds more than they did in 1990, based on the self-reports of more than 1,000 people. The average man weighs 196 pounds while the aver... read more

Racism linked with gun ownership and opposition to gun control in white Americans

A new study has found that higher levels of racism in white Americans is associated with having a gun in the home and greater opposition to gun control ... for each one point increase (on a scale from ... read more

The 5 Best Arguments Against Immigration—and Why They're Wrong

No issue is more hotly contested today than immigration, with restrictionists calling for the deportation of illegals and a 50 percent cut in legal ... members such as spouses and minor children. The ... read more

The DVD Wrapup: Final Portrait, Overboard, Dark Crimes, Iron Brothers, Streets of Vengeance, Piranha II, Star Wars Rebels, Myanmar … More

Final Portrait picks up on their relationship in 1964, when they run into each other in a Paris restaurant and Giacometti ... In 2015, it sold at Christie’s for a sliver under $21 million. A while ago ... read more

From the Archives: The Master of the One-Liner

"He possessed all the gifts I, and all other ... I took the money and bought land." He disliked talking about his wealth. Once, just before a tour of Vietnam, he was asked if it was true that he was w... read more