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• Clark receives largest single gift in its history (AP)
• Survivor: Machete attack preceded 3 NJ killings (AP)
• Judge: Brown U. rape-accusation suit can proceed (AP)
• Teen convicted of murder in Mass. school stabbing (AP)
• Rosier Job Outlook for College Graduates (U.S. News & World Report)
• Pa. 5th-grader's 'death list' left in library book (AP)
• Wyoming governor pushed to cancel Ayers' visit (AP)

Clark receives largest single gift in its history (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 05:09 PM PDT AP - Clark University in Massachusetts has received the largest gift in its 123-year history, a $14.2 million offering from the late head of a company that ultimately grew into one of the nation's biggest property and casualty insurers.

Survivor: Machete attack preceded 3 NJ killings (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 02:23 PM PDT AP - She had been sexually assaulted, slashed with a machete and shot in the head, but as the young woman clung to life she could think only of one thing: Where are my friends?

Judge: Brown U. rape-accusation suit can proceed (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 01:52 PM PDT AP - A student who says he was falsely accused of rape by a Brown University classmate can move forward with his lawsuit against the Ivy League school, a federal judge ruled.

Teen convicted of murder in Mass. school stabbing (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 12:19 PM PDT AP - A Massachusetts teenager was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing another student in what prosecutors described as a random attack at a suburban Boston high school.

Rosier Job Outlook for College Graduates (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 11:45 AM PDT U.S. News & World Report - The menacing clouds that have hung over the job market for recent college graduates are not parting completely, but a few rays of light are finally breaking through. For the first time in nearly two years, the hiring climate looks hospitable--if only slightly so--to new graduates, according to a report on the 2010 job outlook from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, or NACE. The report, based on a survey of 177 employers of various sizes nationwide, projects that 5.3 percent more new graduates will be hired this year than were last year. ...

Pa. 5th-grader's 'death list' left in library book (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 05:25 AM PDT AP - School administrators say a Pennsylvania fifth-grader made a "death list" with a dozen names written on it and stuck it inside a library book.

Wyoming governor pushed to cancel Ayers' visit (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 01:13 PM PDT AP - Gov. Dave Freudenthal was among those who agreed with canceling a talk by 1960s radical William Ayers at the University of Wyoming earlier this month.

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