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My kid brother used to work for US News, and would talk about how much schools would contort their operations and data reporting in order to budge up the college rankings a notch or two.

All of that notwithstanding, I understand that Washington University of St. Louis is considered by some to be the Rutgers of the Midwest.

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Well, that is pathognomonic, as they say in medicine. Case closed.

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Hey big dog anonymous email writer, the unavoidable fact of the matter is that someone at your school thought hiring Bristol Palin, at great expense (whether through tuition money or student fees.....I don't give a goddam), was a smart idea. No one at Georgetown thought to do that. You just gotta suck it, bitch.

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The only shrine to Mark McGuire was the highway to the airport. The Mark McGuire Highway signs have now been taken down, and the road has been turned into a speed trap, rather suggesting that the local police can't tell amphetamines from steroids.

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Washington University also gave an honorary degree to Phyllis Schlafly. <a href="http://www.insidehighered.c..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/05/05/sch...">http://www.insidehighered.c...

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Or her American History class -- or "Her"-story as those feminizers like to put it. But in Palin's case it really is all about her.

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"but please find a better reason to shit on WashU than the name next time. "

What better reason to shit on a school than being stupid enough to give Bristol Fucking Palin money to opine on teenage pregnancy? Seriously, the young lady doesn't have the skills to be a Walmart greeter.

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Losing that 20 grand is going to be hard on Bristol’s budget. No Hamburger Helper tonight for Tripp.

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Plus she'll do the Wassila Meth Two-Step

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I had the same question...they were going to pay her all those thousands of dollars for some message that god forbid is going to be derailed by controversy, but no one seems to know what this message was?

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