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...influence of money in politics could be more nefarious than antiquated machines preventing citizens in poorer areas from having their votes counted, and the Democratic Party and Vice President Al Gore '69 may rightfully feel aggrieved that many of their supporters were denied the right to vote...
...inventors each year take the bait, and, quicker than you can say "rags to riches," find themselves caught in a very different kind of mousetrap. Consumer advocates, government regulators and industry experts say that virtually everyone who contacts these firms with dreams of riches will in fact end up poorer. The vast majority of these invention-promotion companies, the experts charge, are nothing but massive scams aimed at often naive and sometimes desperate backyard tinkerers, many of whom have more hope than business acumen. Even the companies that operate within the law rarely provide inventors with the tools necessary...
Today, after four years, Mahaffey, 34, is more than $13,000 poorer, and his invention is still a dream. The father of two girls is disillusioned and bitter...
...that MIT has come out of the lawsuit filed by Krueger's family $6 million poorer (the school settled with the family this September), the pressure is on both colleges and the city to puritanize student nightlife...
...biggest players on the world financial stage debated last night at the ARCO Forum about solutions for the major problem of globalization: the rich are getting richer, and the poor, poorer...