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...mail looks like a scam: "I have to come up with big-time cash," writes Max Stephenson. The 18-year-old is headed for New York University, he explains, but his mom is on disability, his dad works three jobs, and all his grants and loans only cover half of the school's $50,000 annual tab. So to cover the gap, he's hoping 10,000 friends of friends of friends will each put $2.50 in the mail or send the money via PayPal. "If you're worried I am one of those internet rip-off artists, call...
...thing is, his plea is legit. And two weeks after Stephenson sent his e-mail to 300 of his friends and his parents' business contacts - and asked them to forward it to anyone they could think of - he says he has already received close to $6,000 from more than 2,000 people. Only a dozen or so e-mail recipients have written to him asking if he's a swindler. "Everybody's been really nice about it," he says. "As nice as I guess you can be to somebody you suspect to be scamming you. It hasn't been...
...Able UK's chairman Peter Stephenson, however, dismisses the campaigners as "scaremongerers," arguing that by undertaking recycling under Britain's strict regulations, the company deserves the environmentalist mantle. "What the [campaigners] have done has actually been detrimental to the environment. For four years, they have stopped us recycling ships," he says...
...same time that many schools hunt for new head men, Tim Murphy has been reappointed as the Thomas Stephenson Family Head Coach for Harvard Football through 2011, the Department of Athletics announced yesterday...
...What Thomas Stephenson Family Coach for Harvard Football Tim Murphy doesn’t realize—indeed, what the Thomas Stephenson family doesn’t even realize—is just how good Polhemus is. There is a schoolyard quality to his game that stems from a renegade attitude and an aversion to quarterback orthodoxy. Against a Harvard defense that must blitz constantly to cover up its atrocious secondary (111th in pass defense out of 116 teams in division I-AA), things will inevitably break down. When they do, Polhemus will elude the rush unlike any quarterback Harvard...