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Letter About Palin Goes Viral
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400
This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook.
Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400
Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools.
Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.

The Talk of the Town

Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama.
Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . .
Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.
Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . .
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .

 

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Professional Fraternity Association - Founded in 1928 to encourage interfraternity cooperation.
Meta Description: [ The Professional Fraternity Association (PFA) traces its history back to 1928 when twenty-six professional fraternities joined together to encourage interfraternity cooperation.  Today, the PFA represents nearly 1.7 million professional men and women at over 3,000 chapters across the nati... ]

Alpha Zeta Omega Pharmaceutical Fraternity - A pharmaceutical Fraternity composed of pharmacists and undergraduates in Pharmacy.
Meta Description: [ Hompage of Alpha Zeta Omega Pharmaceutical Fraternity ]

Brotherhood KG Cambridge - Members with special achievements in Academic and Business perspective.

Delta Sigma Chi - Alpha Chapter - Professional Straight Chiropractic Fraternity founded July 18, 1913.
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500 Gamma Epsilon Tau - Zeta Chapter - Co-ed printing fraternity at the Rochester Institute of Technology with national ambition. Features organization details, events, and membership list.

National Society of Pershing Angels (NSPA) - A military-based drill sorority whose areas of interest are drill, service and social.

Phi Beta Lambda - Pennsylvania State University - Mu Alpha Rho Chapter - Co-ed professional business fraternity.

Phi Sigma Gamma - Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine - Zeta Chapter - Osteopathic Medical Society seeks to foster a sense of unity between its members.

Phi Theta Sigma Fraternity - A co-ed music fraternity founded on April 20th, 1999 at Arkansas State University.

Sigma Phi Psi Sorority, Inc. - Sorority for United States Armed Forces Women.
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Sigma Phi Sigma - Ferris State University - Co-ed professional fraternity for students studying to work in Forensic Science. Founded in Big Rapids, Michigan, in 2001.

Skull and Bones - Vanderbilt University - A premedical chapter of the American Medical Student Association. Not affiliated with the Order of Skull and Bones at Yale.

Tau Alpha Chi - Official Site - A professional organization that promotes scholastic and professional excellence in the field of taxation. Membership is open to undergraduate, graduate, and law students.