The World Bank named Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth College’s president, as its new chief on Monday after an unprecedented competition against nominees from Nigeria and Colombia. In a statement Monday afternoon, the bank board said it had chosen Kim as the institution’s 12th president to succeed Robert Zoellick when his five-year term ends in June. Read full article > >

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The deadline for the White House to nominate a candidate to lead the World Bank is 6 p.m. Friday. They will choose someone. And that someone will be an American. At first glance, this seems absurd. The World Bank exists to serve developing nations. All of its operations take place in developing nations. And so you might think it would make sense to name someone from a developing nation to lead the institution. That’s certainly how at least some developing nations feel. Read full article > >

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Washington and Lee University will hold classes Monday over the objections of David Knoespel and some of his law school classmates, who unsuccessfully petitioned their institution to shut down for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Read full article > >

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PENN STATE COACH Joe Paterno is gone. So too is the university’s longtime president, Graham Spanier. The Nittany ­Lions are gearing up for a game this week against Ohio State, having lost Saturday’s home game against Nebraska. Students are refocusing attention on their studies. Things seem to be quieting down after a week in which the State College, Pa., campus was rocked by allegations of child sexual abuse and the institution’s seeming indifference. However, there can be no return to normalcy until every detail of this painful episode is uncovered and disclosed. Read full article > >

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Penn State faces more questions about Sandusky case

Nearly one in three low-income young adults without a four-year college degree in the District was unemployed and not in school in 2009, far higher than the national rate, according to a report released Wednesday by the Brookings Institution . Using census data, the report examined 28,000 low-income 16-to-24-year-olds in Washington who had not earned a bachelor’s degree. Of those, nearly 9,000 were unemployed and not in school. Read full article > >

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D.C. youth unemployment exceeds national rate

The leadership of the financially struggling American Folk Art Museum are considering whether to shut down the museum and donate its collections to another institution.

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The British Standards Institution are celebrating 60 years of approving safety standards for consumers

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After days of wet and stormy weather, Georgetown University was able to hold out door commencement ceremonies. Saturday was a glorious day for a graduation. Prominent public figures spoke, and thousands of degrees were awarded. But things fell just short of perfection. The graduation program had a misspelling on the cover. Instead of declaring the name of the institution to be “Georgetown University,” letters were transposed in the latter word. It read “Univeristy.” An unfortunate matter, but it was not clear Sunday whether it was sufficiently consequential to take its place alongside the memorable 2009 episode in which players on the local major league baseball team took the field with uniform shirts reading “N atinals” (instead of Nationals). Read full article > >

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Austria’s finance minister called Tuesday for the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, to consider resigning. It was the most direct call so far for Strauss-Kahn to step down since his arrest on sexual assault charges in New York this weekend. At a gathering of European finance ministers in Brussels, Maria Fekter said Strauss-Kahn “has to figure out for himself that he is hurting the institution,” wire services reported. Also Tuesday, Spain’s finance chief, Elena Salgado, called the allegations against the IMF chief “extraordinarily serious” and added that “if I had to show my solidarity and support for someone, it would be toward the woman who has been assaulted.” Read full article > >

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In Europe, a first call for IMF chief Strauss-Kahn to quit

The IMF has announced it has appointed Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s deputy to manage the institution after he was charged with the attempted rape of a hotel chamber maid.

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Some of the folks responsible for developing and promoting e-mail, e-commerce and social media are banding together in an attempt to save the U.S. Postal Service , the institution arguably most threatened by the technological developments of the past few years. As mail volume continues to plummet and more Americans use the Internet to pay bills and keep in touch, Google executives, social media experts and some of the most passionate tech evangelists are planning to meet in Crystal City in mid-June to sort out how to save and remake the nation’s mail delivery service. Read full article > >

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Crystal City summit to explore ways to save U.S. Postal Service

After a Title IX complaint was filed by a group of current undergraduate and graduate students against Yale University on March 15, alleging the institution’s failure to address incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault has created a “hostile…

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The principal of Abertay University is suspended, less than two weeks after the suspension of the institution’s vice-principal.

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Changes to the way the NHS is run in England will improve “the health of the poorest fastest” and make the institution “fit for the demands of the 21st Century”, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has said.

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Strip-searches are routinely carried out at Wetherby Young Offenders’ Institution, prison inspectors say.

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Youths still being strip-searched