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...Great Retirement Ripoff Our investigative report on how Congress has allowed corporations to legally revoke employees' retirement benefits prompted expressions of outrage from workers whose pensions are at risk. But other readers decried Americans' lack of self-sufficiency and inability to save for their golden years...
Have our politicians become too gutless to represent retirees? "Round 'em up and hang 'em!" may not be the most practical solution to the retirement ripoff, but someone needs to let Congress know the hurt and anger of dedicated people who have worked a lifetime and then got the shaft. MICHAEL J. PRESTON Boulder, Colo...
...CSPIRG study’s release, national legislators called on the General Accounting Office (GAO) to launch an investigation of publishers, ensuring that they were not engaging in price fixing or other dubious acts to keep costs high for students. CSPIRG’s report, “Ripoff 101: How the Current Practices of the Textbook Industry Drive Up the Cost of College Textbooks,” also led to hearings this summer before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Education Committee...
...international hit Shaolin Soccer she plays a shy baker with an extravagant case of eczema who shaves her head, pulls some nifty martial-arts moves and wins the match, the guy and, in the film's last scene, the cover of TIME. In My Dream Girl, a ripoff of Pygmalion, she's a ragamuffin (but still quite a muffin) who elevates silliness into a showcase for urchin charm. She ranged further in two films she made with Jiang Wen: He Ping's Warriors of Heaven and Earth, a Crouching Tiger wannabe with Zhao as a general's rebellious daughter...
...really was the cost, ultimately. I thought it was a ripoff. If Harvard doesn’t get more competitive, they could lose a majority of their users,” he said...