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University of Texas

• Court seems split on doctor's discrimination suit

  The Supreme Court seemed split Wednesday over whether a doctor's discrimination lawsuit against a Texas medical center should be upheld. Listening to ... 

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  High court takes on a new affirmative action case

  The Supreme Court's decision to hear a new case from Michigan on the politically charged issue of affirmative action offers an intriguing hint that ... 

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  Tenn. university proposes fracking on its own land

  The University of Tennessee wants to allow hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas on a state-owned tract of rolling woodland and use the revenue ... 

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  Ryan O'Neal wins appeals ruling in defamation case

  Ryan O'Neal may have enough evidence to show that he was defamed by a man who claimed the actor stole a valuable portrait of the late Farrah Fawcett, ... 

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  LBJ and Lady Bird courtship love letters released

  Days after the congressional aide met the University of Texas history and journalism graduate in Austin, he boldly proposed marriage. Claudia Alta ... 

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  Texas officer who ended '66 UT sniper rampage dies

  The Austin police officer who helped stop Charles Whitman's 1966 sniper rampage from atop the University of Texas tower has died. Houston McCoy fired ...