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Two cash-strapped cities, Pittsburgh and Providence, have proposed taxing some of their poorest and most vulnerable residents -- college students -- and the local universities are furious. In his recently unveiled 2010 budget proposal, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl called for levying a...

Ben Stein is a droll little fellow, and apparently not without a sense of irony. In the new issue of Fortune, the former Nixon speechwriter and game show host asks, "Does Dick Parsons Have a Conflict of Interest?" Stein's answer: Yes. Parsons, the former chairman of Time Warner (TWX) (which, as...