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Authorities in Cambridge, Mass., agreed not to prosecute the Harvard scholar for disorderly conduct for alleged statements to the police investigating a falsely reported break-in at his home.

Receiving a Pell Grant is associated with faster degree completion when variables such as parent’s education and undergraduate risk factors are controlled simultaneously.

Lawmakers wiped out $12-million in funds for the programs, causing as many as half of the state’s early colleges to shut down.

The group is the third one of postdocs to form in the nation.

Police records say he was booked for disorderly conduct after failing to cooperate and calling one officer a racist, the Associated Press says.

The world’s largest publisher of medical and scientific literature announced a project in which online presentations will take fuller advantage of Web-based technologies.

The university had accused him of sending defamatory e-mail after he was removed as dean.

The choice is John Silvanus Wilson Jr., an associate professor of higher-education administration at George Washington University.

The struggling North Carolina institution is also aggressively trying to fill its freshman class, offering four years of free tuition to some students.

Judges hold that the U.S. government did not demonstrate that it had given Tariq Ramadan sufficient opportunity to show he did not willingly support a terrorist group.