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• Kids Today: The Most Annoying Liberal Arts School In The U.S.

  Published: July 25, 2007, 6:15 pm

  Tags: Cheaters Never Prosper, Heavy Hangs The Head, Kids Today, Polls, Rankings, Sarah Lawrence, Top, We Re All Winners Except Not, Wesleyan

  Hello there, liberal arts college grad! Until we started doing this monumental search for annoying colleges, we had no idea so many of you lurked among us, spreading your pansexual,...

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• 2007 Failed States Index Released

  Published: June 18, 2007, 6:42 am

  Tags: Fund For Peace, Failed States, Dodgy Rankings

  ritual of world university rankings. Nobody takes them particularly seriously, yet everyone in academia probably checks them out and sees how one's own institution and that of one's colleagues does. Pretty silly, but that's us... all too human

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• ‘India Today’ Best Engineering Schools - 2007

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:59 am

  Tags: Rankings

  IIT, Kanpur IIT, Delhi IIT, Chennai IIT, Mumbai IIT, Kharagpur IIT, Rurkee IIT, Gauhati Indian Insitiute of Information Technology, Allahabad College of Engineering, Anna Univ, Chennai National Institute of Technology, Tirchnapali Faculty of Eng. & Technology Jadavpur University, Kolkata Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi National Institute

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• Category rankings: Cornerbacks

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:14 pm

  Tags: Rankings

  Rivals.com continues the category rankings with a look at the top cornerback prospects in five categories. Five-star Patrick Johnson is so dominant, it is almost a surprise when he is not at the top of a list. Find out who is the fastest, has the best ball skills, best coverage skills, is the most physical and best athlete.

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• Category rankings: Safeties

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:56 pm

  Tags: Rankings

  In the latest edition of Rivals.com's position category rankings, we rank the top five safety prospects in four categories. Is anyone faster that Rivals100 safety Rahim Moore? Who is the hardest hitter? Who has the best coverage skills? Our experts have come up with the complete lis

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• Rankings: Does Boston Actually Suck More Than D.C.?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Boston Sucks, D C Sucks, Polls, Rankings, Top

  Last evening, we received the following email: Do you hate Boston, or do we just really suck? I recently got into an argument about which city sucked more, DC or Boston, with a friend and she...

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• Category rankings: Athletes

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:11 am

  Tags: Rankings

  In the latest edition of Rivals.com's position category rankings, we break down the athletes. Is there a faster prospect in the athlete category than Fort Washington (Md.) Friendly's Lamaar Thomas? Who is the most athletic? Who has the best ball skills? Our experts have come up with the complete list

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• Category rankings: Kickers

  Published: August 3, 2007, 2:25 pm

  Tags: Rankings

  In the final installment of the position category rankings, it is the kickers' turn to go under the microscope. Chris Sailer of Chris Sailer Kicking gives his thoughts on the strongest legs and most accurate kickers in the nation. Austin (Texas) Westlake three-star prospect Justin Tucker gets the nod for strongest le

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• Updated Rivals100 set to release

  Published: August 5, 2007, 7:43 pm

  Tags: Rankings

  Will there be a new No. 1 player in the nation? Will Blaine Gabbert get his fifth star? Those burning questions and more will all be answered on Monday as Rivals.com releases its second Rivals100 ranking for the class of 2008. This updated ranking was based upon countless hours of observations at summer events and film evaluation. Get the

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• Rivals100: The battle for No. 1

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:20 pm

  Tags: Rankings

  Picking the Rivals100 is never easy, especially near the top. This year, there are several elite prospects that could make a case for the No. 1 spot. Rivals.com recruiting analysts Jeremy Crabtree and Mike Farrell break down the top five and give their takes on the argument each could make for the top spot, and what each needs to do to hang on to

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• Summer evaluation leads to new Rivals100

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:18 pm

  Tags: Rankings

  Until recently, there weren't many opportunities to evaluate the top football prospects in the summer months. Camps were closed to the media, 7-on-7 passing tournaments were in their infancy and - unlike AAU basketball - there weren't many occasions to see prospects in action. In the last five years that has started to change, and it has

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• Top ten unchanged, Sybille Bammer cracks top 20

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:54 am

  Tags: Sybille Bammer, Acura, Sybille, Classic, Bammer, 4457, Remains, Rankings, Points

  WTA Tour rankings have come out today, and top 10 looks the same. Justine Henin is still the leader with 4457 points, while Maria Sharapova remains second ranked, despite 430 points earned with the victory at the Acura Classic in San Diego on Sunday. Top 20 welcomed one new member Sybille Bammer of Austria. The 27-year-old took the place

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• Austin is Tops for Businesses

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:10 pm

  Tags: Rankings

  Austin and Round Rock bested nearly 400 metropolitan areas to be named the best place for business in the country, according to results recently released by independent research firm Economy.com. Since 2001, Economy.com has published the Economic Vitality Index, a closely-watched ranking of the nation's largest metropolitan areas based on current

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• US News America's Best Colleges 2008 - What importance do the rankings have to US higher education?

  Published: August 17, 2007, 1:44 pm

  Tags: Business Of Education, America, Best Colleges, College Rankings, Harvard, Princeton, Us News College Rankings 2008, Yale

  does the US News college rankings have to US higher education?The rankings are important mostly to the colleges/universities who find themselves in a favorable position among them.If a college/university finds itself in the top 25, top 50, whatever - it makes for great PR, something to add to their website masthead, to include in the

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• US News America's Best Colleges 2008 - 8 Questions in Need of Answers

  Published: August 17, 2007, 1:10 pm

  Tags: Business Of Education, America, Best Colleges, College Rankings, Harvard, Princeton, Us News College Rankings 2008, Yale

  US News & World Report has released their 2008 college ranking.For the eighth straight year, the private New Jersey school, Princeton has claimed the top spot.Numbers 2 and 3 are the same as well, Harvard then Yale.The top 25 are as follows: 1. Princeton University 2. Harvard University 3. Yale University(CT) 4.

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