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...fall semester, 250 graduate student teaching assistants (TAs) instituted a "grade strike," in which grades for fall semester courses were withheld. The strike was designed to force Yale to recognize a legitimate union for TAs, according to the Graduate Employees Students Organization at Yale (GESO...
What would happen is that I began reading the papers differently, as if the news story were an outline or sketch of a deeper (more crafted and layered) story that was being withheld from the reader and at the same time invited the reader's imagination to fill in the blanks. The stories in the news were no less interesting than the Oates story about Swimmers or Conroy's story about the curse of a mad father, but they were bare bones, hints. How could they be otherwise? If reporters had the license of artists, one would have been able...
...public housing projects. He then secured employer IDs from the IRS (making him look as if he were hiring them) and transcribed both numbers onto W-2 forms that he used to prepare electronic returns. Todd filled in an income for these women and a figure for taxes withheld that was high enough to kick back a generous refund. Todd then took the returns to banks to obtain "refund anticipation" loans, which came through within 48 hours. Todd's take was an estimated $511,000 over two years (tax free, of course) before an informant tipped...
Epps said he was concerned that the author had obtained access to the names and mailbox addresses of many male students, even some whose personal information was withheld by Harvard telephone services for special security reasons...
...book was published last week with the kind of fanfare that trumpets commercial fireworks. It was withheld from reviewers and the media until Wednesday, the day it went on sale. That protected any headline-grabbing revelations it might contain, not to mention the serializations scheduled to run in 12 countries. Said a spokesman for the publisher: "It was a very calibrated timing...