A change in federal labor law that takes effect in December 2016 has colleges and universities scrambling to sort out which salaried employees will be due extra pay if they work more than 40 hours in a week. Here's a look at how colleges are coping.
On the second day of a faculty strike at the 14 state-owned colleges, some professors and students were voicing concerns about how a prolonged walkout might affect them.
The association found, among other things, that a top basketball official had given players "impermissible inducements" and the head coach had failed to monitor his staff.
The unlikely topic of how many participants it takes to make an orgy leads Geoff Pullum to reflect on the remarkable failure of human languages to provide for exactness of meaning.
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