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...which point the real devil appeared at the crossroads, in the form of Jeff Probst. This wasn't contract time yet, mind you - just a getting-to-know-you, involving some of Old Scratch's favorite sins: greed and gluttony. For the Reward Challenge, Probst grabbed his gavel and held a food auction...
Capitulating to the hysteria of McCarthyism, Harvard commanded Raymond Ginger to either divulge his political allegiances or resign. Unwilling to comply with the coercion, he immediately submitted his letter of resignation. Harvard gave the Ginger family the monetary equivalent of the two remaining months of his contract, contingent on their rapid departure from Massachusetts. The quality of Raymond Ginger’s teaching and scholarship was never challenged, and the University committed a grave sin against academic freedom by forcing him out on the basis of his political views...
Census data shows that the areas Asian Americans, Latinos and black people live in tend to differ starkly from the communities that white people reside in. Most black people live in areas that are predominantly black. In direct contract, most white people live in neighborhoods that are more than 80 percent white and only 7 percent black...
When Rubin stepped down it was widely speculated that he'd return to Wall Street, garnering a multi-million dollar contract. Few were surprised when he joined Citigroup as one of three co-chairs...
...Olde Towne Team has the game's best pitcher in three-time Cy Young Award winner Martinez (18-6 with a 1.74 ERA in 2000). Despite Alex Rodriguez's gargantuan $252 million offseason contract with the Texas Rangers, the Sox have baseball's best shortstop in Nomar Garciaparra (.372 with 21 HRs and 96 RBIs last year). And due to some $20 million-per-year frivolity of their own, the Sox also have RBI king Ramirez (.351, 38, 122), as well as Everett (.300, 34, 108) and All-Star closer Derek Lowe (4-4, 2.56 ERA, 42 saves). They...