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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Cheat Sheet - The Country’s Best Colleges

Today: Senate Reaches Budget Deal , Houston Paper Revokes Cruz Endorsement , National Book Awards Finalists Announced
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

October 16, 2013
DOWN AND DIRTY

Climbing walls and organic mac-n-cheese are cool, but what really defines a great college in 2013 is how well it prepares you for life after commencement. With that in mind, The Daily Beast crunched the data for nearly 2,000 colleges and universities across the country, factoring in everything that students actually care about—from affordability to future earnings to diversity to activities—to come up with a list of the very best schools in terms of real value. Plus, read the full methodology.

IT'S A GO

Hallelujah! The Senate on Wednesday reached a deal to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling—and what's more, House Speaker John Boehner is ready to push it forward in the House. There's no indication at this point that Republicans will block it—even the obstructionist Sen. Ted Cruz. The agreement funds the government through January 15, and raises the debt ceiling through February 7. A separate Senate motion is in the works to commit the two chambers to working on long-term revenue deal. 

NEVERMIND

Ouch, no hometown love. Ted Cruz's hometown paper, the Houston Chronicle, took back their endorsement of him on Wednesday—claiming they only endorsed him with "many reservations" in the first place. Yikes. The op-ed calls for a return to the principles of Texas conservative Kay Bailey Hutchinson, who Cruz beat in the primary (the Chronicle endorsed her in the primary, Cruz in the general election). "We feel certain she would have worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in crafting a workable solution that likely would have avoided the shutdown all together," the paper writes. Too late guys, too late—unless we get to write an alternative history where this whole shutdown nightmare doesn't happen. It doesn't hurt to dream, right?

NOMINATED

The National Book Foundation announced on Wednesday the 2013 National Book Award finalists, with five nominees in each of the four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature. They were winnowed down from longlists of 10. The winners will be named at a gala dinner and ceremony in New York on Nov. 20. Read the full list here.

CRIME

As accused al Qaeda operative Anas al-Liby appears in a New York City court to face terrorism charges, Libya's government is weighing whether to fund his defense. The Daily Beast's Jamie Dettmer reports from Tripoli.


BIG BUCKS
Ebay Founder Bankrolling Greenwald
In "new media venture."
TECH BUBBLE
Twitter Losses Grow in 3rd Quarter
Still not profitable as IPO nears.
SORRY NOT SORRY
Rielle Hunter: I'm Sorry About Everything
But is writing a second book anyway.
OLDIES
Rock Hall of Fame Nominees Announced
Nirvana, Hall & Oates make list.

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