It's not exactly the clash of the titans, given their unpopularity, but the dust-up between Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush illustrates some important trends in the modern presidency--and the modern post-presidency.
The George Washington University Board of Trustees has made a call for more uniformity in the freshman writing requirement, the GW Hatchet reports. Note to Board of Trustees: Read Ayn Rand's Anthem.
Ohio State students in a course called "Fashion, the Body, and Popular Culture" got a guest lecture from a drag queen, the Lantern reports.
News of the Obvious: A poll at Tufts shows that no students think a new pub will make social life worse, the Tufts Daily reports.
--A.G.
The George Washington University Board of Trustees has made a call for more uniformity in the freshman writing requirement, the GW Hatchet reports. Note to Board of Trustees: Read Ayn Rand's Anthem.
Ohio State students in a course called "Fashion, the Body, and Popular Culture" got a guest lecture from a drag queen, the Lantern reports.
News of the Obvious: A poll at Tufts shows that no students think a new pub will make social life worse, the Tufts Daily reports.
--A.G.
AP - Artillery and machine gun fire echoed around a crowded Palestinian refugee camp for a third straight day Tuesday, as the Lebanese government ordered the army to finish off the Fatah Islam militants holed up inside the camp in the country's north.
AP - Israeli airstrikes Tuesday targeted two camps used by the Islamic militant group Hamas, one day after a Palestinian rocket attack killed a woman in southern Israel, and Israeli leaders suggested even the Palestinian premier could be targeted in reprisal strikes.
AP - Prosecutors accused a former KGB agent Tuesday of murder in the radioactive poisoning of fellow ex-operative Alexander Litvinenko and sought his extradition from Russia. The case is sure to challenge already-tense relations between London and Moscow.
British prosecutors plan to ask Russia to extradite businessman and former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi to face murder charges in the radioactive poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko died in a London hospital in November, several weeks after he was poisoned with polonium-210.
Gasoline prices broke a record Tuesday for the 10th day in a row as every state except for New Jersey now has an average price above the $3 a gallon mark in AAA's daily survey.
Lebanese forces and members of an Islamic militant group are battling for a third day at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Smoke billowed from the camp today, and the crack of small-arms fire echoed through nearby neighborhoods. A spokesman for the militants said they would continue fighting.