Worcester TelegramSix months later, on January 22, 1913, a newspaper scoop in The Worcester Telegram in Massachusetts revealed that Thorpe had performed minor league skilled baseball in 1909 and 1910. Back then, skilled” was a unclean word because it meant money had changed arms. Solely simon-pure” amateurs had been allowed to compete in the Olympic Games. Thorpe had signed the official Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) Entry Type, testifying that he had by no means played any sport for cash and subsequently qualified as an beginner.

Specifically, it got here to light yesterday that the 18 members of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts board of directors are paid anywhere from $fifty eight,000 to $90,000 a year — good work if you may get it, although work” might be a stretch, provided that it’s typically a gathering a month. Blue Cross is, after all, a nonprofit. That board simply paid $8.6 million to the not too long ago departed chief government deemed unworthy of his job, with near $3 million more to come back.

The additional layoffs come on the heels of a number of layoffs the company introduced earlier this year, which are taking place this week. These included a … Read the rest