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...someone placed a memo in her mailbox that listed her base salary-about $44,000 a year-and that of three male colleagues of equal if not lesser tenure and title. They earned from $53,000 to $62,000. "I was floored," says Ledbetter, 70. "I just didn't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Clean on Worker Salaries | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

...know the drill. As election day approaches, glossy pamphlets clog your mailbox. Annoying prerecorded calls jam your answering machine. Nasty attack ads disturb your prime-time TV viewing. You are bombarded at every turn, and you take it all in, with only one responsibility in mind: remember to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Democrats Rule the Web | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...hoax began in the fall when Nava joined the Anscombe Society and began loudly spouting his conservative views. He claimed that soon after he received an anonymous note stuffed into his mailbox in the Frist Campus Center, reading: "YOU HAVE FOUND THE WRONG CAUSE." He told University police that the threat resurfaced after he wrote a November 9th op-ed in the Princetonian decrying the ready availability of condoms on campus. A week later, he said, a third threat appeared in his mailbox. On Dec. 12, five death threats surfaced and Princeton was in an uproar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tale of an Ivy-League Hoaxer | 12/18/2007 | See Source »

...August day in 2007, and the mailbox was empty again...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Ticket Out of Poverty | 12/11/2007 | See Source »

...Warren said that PostSecret began three years ago as local community art project. Warren, then a small business owner from Germantown, Md., passed out 3000 blank postcards in the Washington, DC area, all with his address on them. “Slowly secrets began finding their way to my mailbox,” Warren said. He posted them at an exhibition soon afterward. Among the first secrets displayed was a postcard stating simply, “I’m a white guy and I like black girls.” A few days later, someone added graffiti...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Satirical Self-Help Manual Ends Up as Sad Self-Mockery | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

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