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Already facing crippling debt and a rocky job market, students in default can't even get access to the grades they've already earned.

Security guards in Philadelphia face an uphill battle to unionize with the Employee Free Choice Act stalled in Congress.

Taylor Branch concludes his staggering trilogy of the civil rights era with At Canaan's Edge, a relentlessly detailed narrative of Martin Luther King's desperate struggle to save the movement.

Forty-two years later, assassination buffs continue to attack the
validity of the Warren Report.

Nashville

On November 4, 1979, a few months after the collapse of the Iranian monarchy and the inauguration of Iran's Islamic Republic, a group of college students calling themselves the Muslim Students Fo

In the late summer and fall of 1997, small news leaks began appearing
that Mayor Edward Rendell of Philadelphia (who is now governor of
Pennsylvania) was thinking about suing the firearms indus