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Trump Bashes Obama, Questions Qualifications for Ivy League
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended. Trump, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, offered no proof for his claim but said he would continue to press the matter as he has the legitimacy of the president's birth certificate. "I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?" Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm thinking about ...
Calif. Debates Place of Gay History in Textbooks
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- California conservatives were outraged in 1966 when the state Board of Education adopted a new junior high school history textbook. The book's inclusive treatment of the civil rights movement and influential black Americans would indoctrinate students, undermine religious values and politicize the curriculum, they said. Forty-five years later, gay rights advocates say similar arguments are being advanced to defeat a bill that would make the state the first to require the teaching of gay history in public schools. The California Senate approved the landmark measure ...
Former Principal's Nonprofit Promotes Education in Ethiopia
By not in system - AOL NewsIn a world of nearly 7 billion human beings, a former elementary school principal on Long Island proved once again that a single person can make a big difference. In this case, she helped tens of thousands a world away. Helen Boxwill's nonprofit organization, H² Empower, which aims to empower people through education and sustainable development, has focused its efforts on Hosanna, a rural agricultural area in southern Ethiopia with 30,000 school-age children. When Boxwill first arrived in Hosanna in 2003, as part of a non-governmental organization program called International Foundation for ...
Official Steve Jobs Biography Set for Release in 2012 [VIDEO]
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11-Year-Old Bird Artist Olivia Bouler Releases Book
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsThings 11-year-old Olivia Bouler has done in the last 12 months: Cleaned up a Gulf Coast beach with the Jonas Brothers Appeared on the "Today" show Wrote her first book, "Olivia's Birds: Saving the Gulf," released this week Received a glowing review for said book in Publisher's Weekly Raised more than $150,000 to help Audubon's efforts in the Gulf Olivia, an aspiring ornithologist and artist from Islip, Long Island, N.Y., wasn't seeking fame or access to tween heartthrobs when she wrote a letter to the National Audubon Society last spring. Her grandparents live in ...
NH University Acquires Robert Frost's Letters to Pal
By not in system - AOL NewsCONCORD, N.H. -- Writing from England as World War I got under way, Robert Frost was more worried about his personal finances than the threat of war. Plymouth State University / AP This letter from the archives of Plymouth State University is one of several written by Robert Frost. The university, where he once taught, is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the poet's time on campus. "This row was exciting at first. But it has lost some of its interest for us," the poet wrote to his friend Ernest Silver in August 1914, just weeks after Great Britain declared war on Germany. "Not ...
Malcolm X Scholar Manning Marable Dies at 60
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Manning Marable, an influential historian whose forthcoming Malcolm X biography could revise perceptions of the slain civil rights leader, died Friday, just days before the book described as his life's work was to be released. He was 60. His wife, Leith Mullings, said Marable died from complications of pneumonia at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. She said he had suffered for 24 years from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease, and had undergone a double lung transplant in July. "I think his legacy is that he was both a scholar and an activist," she said. "He ...
Syrian President Blames Protests on 'Conspirators'
By not in system - AOL NewsDAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria's president dashed expectations that he would announce sweeping reforms Wednesday and instead took a tough line, blaming two weeks of popular fury on a foreign conspiracy. Bashar Assad's own officials billed his speech as an introduction of major change and the turnaround infuriated protesters who vowed to keep up with their extraordinary cries for reform. The conflicting messages also raised questions about a possible rift in one of the Middle East's most rigid regimes, where Assad and a tight coterie of family and security services hold all the reins power. "Syria ...
Who's in Hell? Pastor's Book Sparks Eternal Debate
By not in system - AOL NewsDURHAM, N.C. -- When Chad Holtz lost his old belief in hell, he also lost his job. The pastor of a rural United Methodist church in North Carolina wrote a note on his Facebook page supporting a new book by Rob Bell, a prominent young evangelical pastor and critic of the traditional view of hell as a place of eternal torment for billions of damned souls. Two days later, Holtz was told complaints from church members prompted his dismissal from Marrow's Chapel in Henderson. "I think justice comes and judgment will happen, but I don't think that means an eternity of torment," Holtz said. "But I ...
Will Smith Foundation Donates Computers to Philadelphia High School
By not in system - AOL NewsPHILADELPHIA -- Will Smith is donating replacements for 30 stolen computers to a high school in West Philadelphia, where he was born and raised. Charley Gallay, Getty Images West Philadelphia High School is getting new computers to replace stolen ones, thanks to Will Smith's foundation. The Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation and the Charlie Mack Cares philanthropic organizations are giving 29 Apple laptops and one desktop to West Philadelphia High School. Local community activist Charlie Mack is a longtime assistant and friend of Smith, the music, TV and film superstar. Mack ...
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