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...paychecks, ordinary people the world over have cause to complain about being locked out of the party. "The top of the house shouldn't continue to award itself when the folks on the lower end of the ladder suffer," says C. William Jones, a retired telephone-company worker in Easton, Maryland, who was so incensed about his pension and health-care benefits being cut that he helped start a protest group called BellTel Retirees. It now has more than 100,000 members and mainly communicates online...
...paychecks, ordinary people the world over have cause to complain about being locked out of the party. "The top of the house shouldn't continue to award itself when the folks on the lower end of the ladder suffer," says C. William Jones, a retired telephone-company worker in Easton, Md., who was so incensed that Verizon cut his pension and health-care benefits that he helped start a protest group called the Association of BellTel Retirees. It now has more than 100,000 members and communicates mainly online...
...imploring, ONLY 53 CENTS A DAY WILL SUPPORT A NICARAGUAN FREEDOM FIGHTER. But they also annoyed the Reagan team, to the point that they were barred from a White House reception for the medical students rescued during the 1983 invasion of Grenada, according to Gang of Five, author Nina Easton's chronicle of the conservative movement of that time. Soon after, Norquist and Abramoff also worked for and were later fired by drugstore baron Lewis Lehrman's conservative group Citizens for America, over what a source close to Lehrman told the Washington Post was "lavish spending...
...Tigers’ combined streak of 13-straight NCAA appearances. Since Penn had the best record against the other two, it looked on as the Bulldogs downed Princeton in the first round of the playoff for the tourney berth. But the Quakers then beat Yale 77-58 in Easton, Pa. to quell the best charge that the six non-P’s have mustered since the Big Red tourney appearance...
...EASTON, Pa.—Of all the numbers that the Crimson put up in Saturday’s 24-17 win at Lafayette, the zero had the greatest value. Zero as in, zero interceptions for quarterback Liam O’Hagan for the first game this season. After four games in which he threw one, two, three, and three picks, the sophomore starter finally put up the mistake-free performance that the team had been looking for. And while Harvard’s difficulties on special teams emerged once again—sophomore Steven Williams fumbled his third kick...