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Early Retirement Payments Are Taxable, Court Rules
Federal appeals panel orders Pitt to pay $2.2 million in Social Security taxes, deeming professors' tenure to be just another right based on past service to university.
A Challenge to the Recording Industry?
Eyes were on Oregon last week after the state's attorney general filed a motion to quash subpoenas from the recording industry, arguing, among other reasons, that they violated students' privacy.
Imperfect Peek Into the Police Blotter
A new FBI report offers a (less than complete) look at the overall nature of crimes at schools and colleges: most are assaults, vandalism or theft.
A College-Friendly Take on Rising Prices
Hearing on rising tuitions, normally a scary topic for higher ed officials, treads gently and focuses on proposal to ensure better state funding of public colleges.
Williams Drops Loans and Wesleyan Curbs Them
Movement to eliminate student borrowing grows -- and Davidson College, which did so in the spring, reports gains as a result.
A Different View of the Middle East
Scholars who don't like direction of the field form new group, vowing not to be politicized. Others say the founders are exactly those who have politicized the discipline.
The Possible New Pell Grant: $4,925
Congressional compromise would lift maximum grant by $125 more than $490 rise approved in budget act; NIH would receive $30 billion. Bush veto likely.