Temple in the News
NBC sampled the spirit of commencement at ceremonies nationwide through the students of the class of 2010 and the celebrity speakers, including Alec Baldwin, Meryl Streep, Michelle Obama and Temple'...
June 8, 2010
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The Pennsylvania House approved a crackdown on illegal immigrants through two bills that would require contractors to verify citizenship. "I think it's a mistake as...
June 8, 2010
On Monday the city of Philadelphia announced plans to build a $48 million mixed-use project near Temple University at the Temple University rail station in North Philadelphia. Mayor Nutter hailed...
June 8, 2010
The Japanese government is considering appointing Uichiro Niwa, the former president of trading company Itochu Corp., as its next ambassador to China. To give such a job to a non-bureaucrat is an...
June 8, 2010
About 20 percent of teens have sent nude photos of themselves over their cell phones. It's called "sexting" and courts, schools, parents and legislators are all trying to figure out what to do about...
June 7, 2010
The Miranda warning was made famous by television detectives reading the bad guys their rights and then asking whether they understood them. After a U.S. Supreme Court decision this week, that...
June 7, 2010
A cap over the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is BP's latest attempt to stem the flow. Over the last six weeks tens of millions of gallons of oil have spread through the Gulf. But nobody...
June 7, 2010
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Japan certainly has a very difficult past when looking at previous prime ministers and the shortness of their tenures in the top job. But, according to a recent...
June 6, 2010
Temple University — now with 37,000 students, eight locations and more than 300 degree programs — started in 1884 as a neighborhood institution housed in a Baptist temple on North Broad...
June 5, 2010
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Just about nine months ago, a deep sea expedition was underway approximately twenty miles north from what is now the epicenter of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico...
June 5, 2010