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• Sound bite

  - 2007-11-01

  'If there are some improprieties, obviously those mechanisms have failed us --Georgia University System Chancellor Erroll Davis on employees using state-issued credit cords for personal purchases. 'A college level No Child Left Behind Act would be catastrophic. --Mark Emmert, president of University of Washington, referring to government...

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• Ousted Spokane mayor James West dies at age 55

  - 2006-07-23

  SPOKANE, Wash. -- Former Mayor James E. West, who opposed gay- rights bills but was recalled from office over an Internet gay sex scandal, died Saturday of complications from recent cancer surgery. He was 55. The conservative former Republican state Senate majority leader was diagnosed in early 2003...

  Tags: CAREER, Government, INTERNET, University of Washington

• Kashima, Tetsuden: Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II.(Book review)

  - 2006-03-22

  Kashima, Tetsuden Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II Seattle: University of Washington Press 316 pp., $35.00 ISBN: 0-295-98299-3 Publication Date: October 2003 In Judgment without Trial, author Tetsuden Kashima accomplishes what at first might seem impossible: he has...

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• Ramet, Sabrina, and Vjeran Pavlakovic, eds.: Serbia since 1989: Politics and Society under Milosevic and After.(Book review)

  - 2006-01-01

  Ramet, Sabrina, and Vjeran Pavlakovic, eds. Serbia since 1989: Politics and Society under Milosevic and After Seattle: University of Washington Press 413 pp., $60.00, ISBN 0-295-98538-0 Publication Date: November 2005 Sabrina Ramet, a professor of political science at the Norwegian University of Science...

  Tags: FINANCE, Government, Investment, SOFTWARE, University of Washington

• 2003 editorial collaborators.(List of Refrees)

  - 2003-12-01

  The Journal of the American Statistical Association acknowledges the following people who served as referees during the period November 2002, through August 2003. An asterisk indicates that an editorial collaborator served more than once during the year. Adams, John, RAND Akritas,...

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• U.S. Representative: District 4 incumbent Doc Hastings vs. challenger Craig Mason. (WBJ Election Coverage 2002).(Craig Mason)

  - 2002-10-01

  Craig Mason Age: 44 Hometown: Nine Mile Falls, Wash. (Currently living in Richland, Wash.) Office seeking: U.S. Representative, District 4 Political party: Democrat Education: 1986-1990: University of Washington School of Law; J.D. received...

  Tags: FINANCE, Government, hometown, sociology, SOFTWARE, Taxes, University of Washington

• Investigators Say Seattle Fire Started in Office of Tree Researcher.

  - 2001-05-23

  By Ian Ith, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 23--Federal investigators sift through ashes from Monday's fire at the University of Washington's Urban Horticulture Center. They think the fire started in first-floor office of associate professor Toby Bradshaw, who has been...

  Tags: Government, Oregon, University of Washington

• Seattle Gay Culture Center Brunch Series Resumes With Nationally Recognized Policy Advocate Nancy Amidei

  - 2000-09-26

  News/Assignment/Lifestyle Editors SEATTLE--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 26, 2000 Act Out! LGBT Power and Politics for Election 2000 to Focus On How Community Can Make Voice Heard in Political System The Seattle Gay Culture Center kicks off its 2000-2001 Second Sunday Brunch Series with University of Washington Senior Lecturer...

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• BOOKSHELF

  - 2000-08-01

  I Will Tell of My War Story: A Pictorial Account of the Nez Perce War, by Scott M. Thompson (University of Washington Press, 2000; $26.95) This 1877 war is perhaps best known for Chief Joseph's moving surrender speech. But now the discovery of a Nez Perce artist's drawings of...

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• Civil Society in Central Asia.(Review) (book review)

  - 2000-06-22

  Ruffin, M. Holt, and Daniel C. Waugh, eds. Civil Society in Central Asia Seattle: University of Washington Press 331 pp., $19.95 paper ISBN 0-295-97795-7 paper Publication Date: July 1999 Civil Society in Central Asia is an edited collection of papers presented at...

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