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(AgapePress) -- Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, Maryland, is being accused of condoning mob censorship. An academic freedom and individual rights watchdog group is decrying school officials' part in an apparent attempt to silence a conservative newspaper. In May, the Carrolton Record published an issue critical of a group that brought a pornographic film director to the JHU campus. Afterward, hundreds of copies of the newspaper were stolen; however, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the university administration "turned a blind eye to the theft." According to the Record's editor, about half of the 600...

The country's highest-paid college president works for Johns Hopkins University, in the heart of cash-strapped Baltimore, according to a survey that will be released today. President William R. Brody, who is paid $897,786, jumped from having the fifth-highest private school salary in 2002 to being 2003's top earner, according to the survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

<p>With Johns Hopkins and 18 other U.S. universities each seeking to add $1 billion or more to their endowments, I would like to offer a note of caution to Washington-area alumni: As former President Reagan said of his dealings with thethen-SovietUnion, "Trust, but verify."</p>

Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) has been diagnosed with cancer and is taking a 30-day medical leave of absence from Congress. The former Energy and Commerce Committee chairman, who is retiring from Congress at the end of his term, will undergo surgery next week at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. It will be the seventh time since December that Tauzin has been hospitalized, Tauzin spokesman Ken Johnson said. Over the last couple of months, Tauzin has received treatments for a bleeding ulcer. The cancer, which is in the upper small intestine and is related to the ulcer, was not initially detected...

<p>'I'm tired of being forced into the shadows by society'</p> <p>After nearly three decades of failed relationships and emotional discontent, Lindsay Ashford has finally found himself.</p> <p>Since he was a child, Ashford has always had a deep attraction to young girls but never acted on his urges or knew they had a name.</p>