Why to checkout press releases before asking questions

This is a lesson to why press releases can be terrible sources of reliable information.
I received a press release a week ago from Kaplan, a business that prepares students for the LSATs. The release said the UW Law School was the 8th highest in the nation for the number of student applicants.
With the security threat [...]

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New dean has socialist leanings

Although the new College of Arts and Sciences dean, Ana Mari Cauce, was forced to leave her home country, Cuba, because of the communist revolution in 1959, she suggested strong socialist leanings.
Cauce’s father was the minister of education under Batista’s regime, which was overthrown by Fidel Castro’s revolution. When I asked Cauce if she [...]

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