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Stirred by reports of genocide in Sudan, Swarthmore College senior Mark Hanis concocted a zany scheme last fall: an “adopt-a-peacekeeper” fund to finance an African Union (AU) force stationed in Darfur...
...Create an instant, full-time radio network around an ideology? So far as I know, the Air America scheme had no precedent. There had been stations with congenial formats, like the left-wing Pacifica and Amy Goodman's invaluable news-and-interview hour "Democracy Now" has built an informal network on radio and TV stations. There are many, many evangelical Christian radio stations, which bolster the right-wing talk count by hundreds. (If the Unitarians or Episcopalians have a radio network, it's not on my dial.) But these all grew organically, adding like-minded affiliates over the years...
AMHERST, Mass.—Charged with crafting a scheme to defeat both New Hampshire and the Mullins Center’s larger surface, Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 opted for a two-pronged approach: practice off-campus on Olympic-sized rinks during the week, then unveil a speedy and newly constituted fourth line better suited for the ice sheet come game time...
...average worker would benefit from private accounts (which may or may not happen), there will be many, many workers whose private accounts would under perform, costing them thousands in retirement. Social Security is meant to be a guaranteed retirement foundation for all retirees, not a slick investment scheme, where every senior on the wrong side of the stock market’s bell curve is left to starve on the street. That was the situation Social Security was designed to remedy, and privatization would break that promise...
...Washington, by night publishes an electronic broadsheet called CyberWire Dispatch, in which he tells readers what he thinks is really going on. Last April he investigated an Internet advertisement offering $500 or more just for receiving junk E-mail and uncovered what he called a bait-and-switch scheme operated by "a slick direct-mail baron" in Ohio. He wrote a story headlined JACKING IN FROM THE P.T. BARNUM PORT and dispatched it to the Net. He was promptly sued for libel. Whatever the truth of the story -- or the merit of the suit -- Meeks now faces...