Word: pockets
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Make the paper free: it is imperative, as Ms. Schaffer insisted, that a student newspaper, a forum where students can debate and freely exchange ideas, be available to all students without charge. While $34 sounds like pocket change to most students, there are many of us, yours truly among them, that simply cannot come up with that kind of money. I walked into the Leverett dining hall on the morning of the January 22nd and saw several of my housemates fervently discussing David Goldbrenner's oped about whether or not recruiting was more socially valuable than public service...
Chairwoman Nancy Johnson of Connecticut did her best to call the penalty "tough and unprecedented compared to past cases." It will be--if the fine comes out of Gingrich's pocket. In a brazen wiggle, his office left open the possibility that the fine could be paid from campaign contributions. That would render it all but meaningless; it would also open him up to the accusations made against Bill Clinton's legal-defense fund--that it's an open door for influence peddlers. In other words, an ethical problem...
...over. If in the end Gingrich has to reach into his own pocket, there is always the $471,000 in royalties he is reported to have earned on To Renew America, the 1995 book for which he was originally offered an improbable $4.5 million advance. The New Republic points out this week that the book leans heavily on copyrighted materials developed for Newt's college course by the tax-exempt group that is at the center of his current problems...
...BUSINESS, Dec. 30-Jan. 6] blew me away. Despite the fact that their earnings underperformed Standard & Poor's 500 stock index, many Wall Street firms still gave out lavish sums of money. Your article mentioned that top traders and bankers at firms like Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch "will pocket $5 million" apiece. When will Mr. Average American wake up and see the extent to which he is being ripped off? And what will it take to make this industry compete like others? Do we have to invoke Congress to pass laws that will protect us from robbery? How else...
...from, the resurgent Boston area is starved for technical help. "I'm in desperate need of software engineers--40 or 45 of them," says Andrew Hadjucky, chief financial officer of CMG Information Services, a software firm in Andover, Massachusetts, with more than 500 employees. Hadjucky says top engineers can pocket more than $100,000 a year, including bonuses and stock options. "The shortage of talent here is worse than on the West Coast," he says...