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After her $750,000 grant was jeopardized by a delay in the government’s approval of her green card, a breast cancer researcher at Harvard last week passed through the security clearance stage, bringing her a step closer toward continuing her work funded by the National Institutes of Health...
...State Republican party Chairman Bob Davis has called the allegations of racism ludicrous, but whether the photos were intentionally darkened does not matter, says Robert Parham, executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics. "The only plausible reason to use such a picture is to play the race card - in an effort to frighten and fire up white voters in a key senatorial race," Parham wrote in an editorial on the Center's website. "Whether they acted with malice or moral callousness doesn't really matter, the end result is race as a wedge issue...
...position that the law required it to think of Brown as essentially an idiot, or in legal terms, "the least sophisticated debtor." Viewed this way, Brown could easily have understood the letter as a threat to sue. She now gets the chance to prove her claim that the Card Service Center almost never sues and, therefore, the letter was deceptive. If she wins, she and other members of the class can recoup whatever losses they actually suffered (compensation for a job lost, say, or a mortgage application rejected because of the letter) plus attorneys' fees, and the agency...
...Brown, 35, lives near Philadelphia. Two years ago, she was in a serious slump. She had just gotten divorced, her parents had recently died, and she was supporting her 14-year-old daughter alone. There was also this credit card bill. It wasn't much, maybe a few hundred bucks, but it fell into the non-priority pile and was soon forgotten. Not the smartest move on Brown's part, but you can imagine how it would happen...
...Then came the letter from Card Service Center, a debt collection firm. It said Brown had to pay $1,874 within five days, and her "refusal to cooperate could result in a legal suit being filed for collection of the account." That meant, the letter added, presumably for clarity, "forwarding this account to our attorney...