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...English, often elderly Chinese or recent immigrants, while they stood in line at the centers. The translators would tell applicants they were ineligible for aid and give them the business card of a confederate who would then provide fake documents for as much as $400. The fees would be split, according to the source, with the interpreters and sometimes with caseworkers at the centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victims for a Second Time | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...addition to the likely improvement in service, the new rates are a welcome change. All students will pay the same amount for basic telephone service, which is more fair than the current plan where students who live with more roommates pay less for phone service because more people split one bill. Students who live in singles could be paying five times as much for their phone service as each of the neighbors in a nearby five-person sweet. Additionally, by including the costs in termbills, the telephone office will be far more likely to collect the payments successfully. Currently, both...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Farewell to the Phone Office | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...Friday’s meeting, the committee was split over how to determine which issues were most important and should be included in the letter...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Seek Focus for Dean Search Advisory Committee | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...Saty has a different, much rarer third pitch in his forkball. The pitch is similar to a split-fingered fastball, dropping viciously just as it reaches home plate...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Saty For Hire: Will Work Weekends | 4/24/2002 | See Source »

...forkball comes naturally to Saty, who can split his forefinger and middle finger far apart without putting much stress on his wrist. He first experimented with the pitch at age 14 and a coach spotted it and encouraged him to use it. It’s been at his disposal ever since, though he had mostly abandoned it during his first two seasons in Cambridge...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Saty For Hire: Will Work Weekends | 4/24/2002 | See Source »

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