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Taking liberties with law and word—a surreply to Rob Weiner (w/ update)The Washington Post: Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, continues his response to Former Associate Deputy Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice Rob Weiner's critique of…

John Patterson Green, father of Labor Day in Ohio, and his enduring legacy (with photo gallery)The Plain Dealer: John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Associate Professor in Applied History, discussed the reason for state Rep. John Patterson Green’s push to make Labor Day a state holiday in the late…

Case Western Reserve sets a course to train future sports agentsCrain’s Cleveland Business (subscription required): Peter Carfagna, Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence and co-director of the Great Lakes Sports & Entertainment Law Academy, will teach “Representing the Professional Athlete,”…

Extra, extra! How to get your face on screenHuffington Post: Third-year undergraduate Julia Bianco writes about how anyone can be a part of the movies as an extra, and how one can find those opportunities.

Intelligent design could be taught with Common Core’s repealThe Columbus Dispatch: A new bill has been proposed to teach intelligent design in conjunction with evolution in Ohio science classes, a bill pushed for by conservatives since 2006. “It sounds exactly like the kind of things intelligent…

Piketty Envy: What the left gets wrong about the French economistThe Chronicle on Higher Education: Associate professor of English Michael W. Clune wrote about varied reactions to French economist Thomas Piketty’s book on economic inequality.

Preventing teen suicideideastream: Jane Timmons-Mitchell, senior research associate with the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education and associate clinical professor of psychology, discussed what can be done to prevent teen suicide.

An unlikely psychologist-patient friendship unfolds in 'The Story Hour'NPR: Thrity Umrigar, professor of English, discussed her recent novel, The Story Hour,which chronicles the unlikely, unethical “mystical connection” between a psychologist and a patient.

Severe sleep apnea may boost odds for stubborn high blood pressure MSN.com: Cleveland Clinic researchers, led by Harneet Walia, assistant professor of family medicine, found a significant correlation between severe sleep apnea and drug-resistant high blood pressure. The study couldn't prove…

At Startup Weekend, Case Western Reserve University students will begin a new year thinking up new businesses: the Mix The Plain Dealer: On Friday, the Blackstone LaunchPad will present the second-annual Startup Weekend, an opportunity for students to turn their ideas into startup companies. “What…