Race in (Student Loan) Your Face

Race in Your Face
Algernon Austin is what you might call an intellectual entrepreneur. He's trying to earn a living by trafficking in ideas. A resident of the Fair Haven section of New Haven, Austin left a tenure-track job at Wesleyan University to start the Thora Institute ( thorainstitute.org ), a one-man think tank that he hopes will become influential in American debates about race.

Friday
Over the length of his term as chancellor of the University of Maine System, Joseph Westphal has earned a salary of more than $800,000, plus benefits. Now he is retiring.

A penny saved . . .
Lisa A. Chirichillo can still remember the amount of her monthly payment, $168.68.

Debtors Anonymous helps people deal with spending addictions
Every Saturday morning, about a dozen men and women gather in a white-walled room at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago to discuss their painful addiction. Members of Debtors Anonymous, their drugs of choice are typically credit cards.

Some brotherly help
WILKES-BARRE Armed with garbage bags, rakes, lawn mower and weed whackers, about 50 local volunteers on Sunday joined city Department of Public Works crews and a group of young adults from Philadelphia to clean up Wilkes-Barre Boulevard.

Prosecutor focuses on Lay's financial merry-go-round
HOUSTON -- The prosecutor painted a picture: Imagine a shareholder in Enron Corp. in 2001, long before the house of cards came down. Someone who had bills to pay, maybe student loans...