Yale University followed through on its warning Tuesday and banned a student’s “abortion art” project from the opening of a campus exhibit after she continued to deny that she fabricated shocking stories of multiple inseminations and self-induced miscarriages. Senior Aliza Shvarts’ controversial piece still could be included in the student …
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Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Candid Camera The Reverend Michael Pfleger, who has been temporarily removed from his duties as pastor at Saint Sabina Church in Chicago, has a simple explanation for how his anti-Hillary Clinton rant at Barack Obama’s former church ended up YouTube phenomenon: He …
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