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...Somebody had to get a little lucky with him.' RALPH AMENDOLARO, a Queens, N.Y., construction worker, explaining his rationale for playing Bernard Madoff's prison number in the New York Lottery...
Here's $3,000. Now scram! That's the offer that Japan made on April 1 to unemployed foreigners of Japanese ancestry. These immigrants, mostly from Brazil and Peru, had previously obtained special visas to do manufacturing work in Japan for companies like Toyota. With the number of available jobs at a six-year low, the nation can no longer afford to pay them unemployment benefits and is asking them to leave...
...pleased to see such a great number of student concerns being tackled at one time. This success may be due to the student-heavy makeup of the Planning Committee. Of its five subcommittees, two were made up entirely of UC-vetted students. University Hall made the right decision in structuring the process to include such significant student involvement, and we urge that student involvement be a priority as renewal plans proceed...
Although Harvard slashed the number of its faculty searches from 50 to 15, Princeton joined Yale in refusing to slow down hiring despite the financial downturn...
...help identifying the song “weee weee wha weee weee wha weee wee weeee.” Shaq, I spent a good portion of my afternoon Googling multiple versions of those lyrics, singing them at different pitches and speeds, and even contemplating the significance behind the number of “e’s” in the last 3 “wee”s. Not that I would have been able to post an answer in my still Twitter-less state, but I’m sorry I wasn’t able...