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“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

Councillors have given the go-ahead to plans to build 53 homes on the site of a former Royal Mail sorting office in Stretford, even though it conflicts with the local authority’s own design code and ...

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December 24, 2025 • The fight over the soul of higher education is very alive right now, with the Trump administration engaged in dozens of investigations and multiple lawsuits against colleges and ...

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