Abelson graduated with degrees in chemistry and English from City College of New York, and earned a master's degree from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa.

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Brooke Jaffe, a 21-year-old English major at Barnard College in New York, and Justin Lambert, a 20-year-old nursing major at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon, are two cancer patients in remission who helped with the project.

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The famous examples of match fixing in history- the Black Sox baseball scandal of 1919, the New York college basketball scandal of the 1950s or the English football match fixing of the early 1960s all involved players on either no pay or low pay.

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"What it really does is make political corruption a much bigger issue than it has been" in the mayor's race, while upping pressure on Cuomo and other state leaders to do more to thwart it, said Paul Moses, a Brooklyn College English professor and former journalist who specializes in writing about New York City government and politics.

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Safe in her new country, Boyle learned English, finished high school, and went on to college in Arizona, where she met her husband, Neal.

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An Iona College English major who got a master's in business administration from New York University at night, Greifeld spent much of his career selling computer systems for processing and clearing trades.

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Mr. Lewis, a professor of English and comparative literature at Yale until he was named president of the new college in May, said the new venture has received assurances from the Singapore government regarding academic freedom.

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Mrs Ellis, who works for the BBC as English Regions head of new media, said a recovery plan was in place, with the college set to be "back in the black" in two years' time.

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