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Universities should be "havens for free speech and free thought," Hillary Rodham Clinton told a Commencement Day audience at the University of Pennsylvania last Monday. The platitudes ignored Penn's history of limiting free speech if it might offend "politically correct" groups.The university has vigorously pursued a charge of racial harassment against a white student for allegedly offensive remarks, while it languidly investigates whether anybody's freedom of expression was violated when a group of black students trashed an entire issue of the campus newspaper to protest an allegedly offensive column.

Tee Tillman can tell right off when it's going to be a bad day at the settlement table.Buyers who discovered a leaky faucet during a final walk-through of a house just hours earlier can't close until they get repair estimates. Sellers divorcing each other choose settlement as the time to haggle over splitting the proceeds. Or, too frequently, says the senior vice president of Fountainhead Title Group in Columbia, buyers and sellers come in on time and loan TTC documents never show up.Settlement officers have seen it all -- those snags threatening the biggest investment most people will ever make.

Lauren Frenz , of Mount Airy, traveled to Honduras as part of a service learning program at Malone University, in Anton, Ohio. She is a senior majoring innursing. Afton Vechery , of Woodbine, earned a Bachelor of Science in business enterprise management, with a dual concentration in new science development and new business development, and a double minor in neuroscience and entrepreneurship and social enterprise, from Wake Forest University, in Winston-Salem, N.C. She also received the Spirit of Wayne Calloway Award, the Hobbs Award for Entrepreneurial Achievement and was named to the dean's list for the spring 2010 semester.

Eldersburg farm nears historic register status Cold Saturday, a 10-acre Eldersburg farm that dates to the 18th century, has cleared the first hurdle on its way to placement on the National Register of Historic Places. The Maryland Historic Trust has reviewed the history of the property, and this week members unanimously recommended it to the national body. A final decision is expected by year's end, state officials said. "This is for all the people interested in preservation and history," said Carol Hackney, who has owned and operated the farm since 1976.

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Editor: In your editorial "Let Them Eat Cake", you, Mr. Kennedy, display for the public at large your curmudgeonly nature, your abject ignorance and your vitriolic bitterness. To compare teachers who have not receive their negotiated salaries for three years to Marie Antoinette is patently offensive and repugnant. You should be ashamed of yourself. Your proclivity to use your position as editor of the only local paper in Harford County to lambast the county workers and teachers is shameful.  Have you no ethics?

WASHINGTON -- Professor William Ferris, a scholar of the American South at the University of Mississippi whose expertise runs from Faulkner to Elvis, has been selected by President Clinton to head the National Endowment for the Humanities, a White House official said yesterday.The selection of Ferris, a native Mississippian, is likely to blunt the drive of conservative Republicans in Congress who have been trying to eliminate both the humanities endowment and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Hawaii Bowl UAB (7-4) at Hawaii (7-5) Where: Aloha Stadium, Honolulu. Time, TV: 7, ESPN Key stats: On average, Hawaii gives up 49.3 more yards than it gains. On average, UAB gives up 18.6 more yards than it gains. About Hawaii: The Warriors are third nationally in passing offense (333.1 ypg), and senior QB Timmy Chang is the NCAA's career passing leader (16,667 yards). WRs Chad Owens, Jason Rivers and Britton Komine have combined for 212 catches, 2,745 yards and 25 TDs. The defense is 115th in the nation (479.

Just can't wait the two weeks for the Belmont Stakes? Still need your fill of the horses, eh? Check out the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair today through June 1 in Devon, Pa. While it doesn't have horses racing around a track at breakneck speed, the show does have its competitive attractions. It features hunters, jumpers, three- and five-gaited saddle horses, hackney and fine harness horses. There'll also be breeding classes, exhibitions of pairs carriage racing, Arabian costume classes and Budweiser Clydesdales.

A teen-ager and a man have been arrested in last month's fatal shooting of two men in Armistead Gardens in Northeast Baltimore, possibly during a drug-related dispute, police said.Robert "Bert" Fleek Jr., 17, of the 7200 block of Conley St. and Thoyt Dean "Sonny" Hackney, 22, of the 3200 block of E. Baltimore St. were arrested Monday by members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force.The two were charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and handgun violations. They were being held yesterday without bail at the state Central Booking and Intake Center downtown.