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Live Chat: Oz The Great and Powerful Ottawa Citizen: Oz The Great and Powerful made its theater debut last weekend. Athena Vrettos, associate professor of English, was part of a live chat about the lure of Oz stores. “One thing I think we are attracted to is how the Oz stories are about finding out...

Two enemies discover a 'higher call' in battle CNN: Shannon E. French, director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, explains the “warrior’s code”—a bond that surfaces between enemies during and after battle. "People think of the rules of war primarily as a way to protect ...

Arkansas' tough new abortion law on shaky legal ground, experts say The Christian Science Monitor: Arkansas legislators recently adopted a law that makes most abortions illegal after 12 weeks of pregnancy, but most experts agree the bill likely will be struck down in court. “It is very clear this l...

The president & the painter: The Truman-Benton friendship The Kansas City Star Magazine: A new exhibit in Missouri explains the relationship between President Harry Truman and painter Thomas Hart Benton. Henry Adams, professor of American art, wrote a biography on Benton in 1989. Given the tension ...

Copernicus and the Church: What the history books don't say The Christian Science Monitor: Though legend says Nicolaus Copernicus and the Catholic Church were at odds over his development of the heliocentric theory, he actually had a good relationship with the church. Mano Singham, associate profes...

Rats sniff each other to assert dominance, study suggests LiveScience: Research led by Daniel Wesson, associate professor of neurosciences, shows that the act of sniffing among rats allows them to reaffirm their hierarchical status and maintain order....

Four Case Western Reserve trustees commit a combined $10.5 million to the university Crain’s Cleveland Business: Four members of the Board of Trustees have committed a combined $10.5 million to the university’s $1 billion capital campaign, Forward Thinking. “We are grateful to [the trustees] for th...

Black breast cancer survivors face higher heart failure risk: study HealthDay News: According to a new study led by second-year internal medicine resident Anna Valina-Toth, black breast cancer survivors seem more likely to develop heart failure than other women. The rate of heart failure among brea...

Thomas Shannon, U.S. ambassador to Brazil, says Brazil and USA are natural and inevitable partners The Plain Dealer: U.S. Ambassador Thomas Shannon met with Brazilian exchange students studying at Case Western Reserve to discuss how to bring more of them to CWRU. The students “said CWRU has great f...

Chasing the Indians' missing 1948 pennant ESPN: Stephanie Liscio, a doctoral student in history, wrote an article on the Cleveland Indians’ World Series pennant from 1948 that went missing in 1949. “The 1948 pennant went into hiding in the most public way possible,” she wrote. “Perhaps that's why i...