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...will leave Cambridge as a Harvard graduate this June. Yet, I will not give a dime to my alma mater until it takes responsibility, as quickly and easily as it does the credit, for the women Radcliffe entrusted to its care...
...federal government’s contention that inhibiting individuals’ access to education somehow constitutes just punishment for drug-related offenses. Rapists, murderers and other violent criminals, upon their acceptance to any university, still receive full consideration for federal financial aid, yet teenagers guilty of possessing a dime bag of marijuana are not. In its effort to wage war on drugs, the government has lost its sense of perspective on the relative severity of crimes and seems determined to single out drug offenders for permanent punishment. While thieves may spend time incarcerated, they are free to build...
...first place. What many people forget is that you need to pay down your credit-card debt and build up your emergency cushion first. Otherwise when a need for cash arises, you end up raiding your retirement account and paying penalties and taxes on every dime you withdraw. Blandin advises that if you have an inkling you'll want to use your savings to go back to school or buy a first house, stashing it in a Roth IRA, where withdrawals for those purposes aren't penalized, is a much smarter move...
Employees got shares of stock worth a dime apiece. And every week Stack held "huddles" in which everyone from top managers to janitors pored over financial data. Those who couldn't read the data got training. That helped them make day-to-day decisions such as whether a mechanic should repair an engine's connecting rod or install a new one. He could compare his wage, $26 an hour, with the cost of a new rod, $45, and determine that it was worth repairing the old one only if he could do it in 90 minutes or less...
...Huber, who claims he is suffering from an asbestos-related illness, maintains that he never saw a dime. So on Feb. 7 he joined 2,644 other plaintiffs in another class action. This one charges six personal-injury attorneys and their firms in federal court in Pittsburgh, Pa., with fraud, malpractice and deception--or, as the complaint boldly states, "this case arises from corruption within the asbestos personal injury...