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• New York City faces shortfall on Wall Street weakness
• Missouri GOP Lawmaker Comes Out, Slams ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill
• Mo. lawmaker says he is gay, denounces school bill
• MIT, Harvard link up with free online courses
• S.Africa's Tutu brushes off US online petition row
• 10 High-Profile People Whose Degrees Were Revoked

New York City faces shortfall on Wall Street weakness Posted: (Reuters) - New York City expects a total budget gap of $495 million for the current and next fiscal years due to weaker profits on Wall Street than previously forecast, although funds from a legal settlement will largely fill the gap, an administration source said on Wednesday. The tax revenue forecast for the two budget years was revised downward by $352 million, with taxes paid by the growing tech, film and television, tourism and higher education sectors not enough to offset weakness in the financial sector, the source said. ...

Missouri GOP Lawmaker Comes Out, Slams ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Posted: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Rep. Zachary Wyatt of Missouri's 2nd District disclosed he was gay for the first time. Wyatt is from Green Castle, in northeastern Missouri in a very rural part of the state. Wyatt encouraged his fellow lawmakers to end discussion on a bill that would limit the discussion of sexual orientation in public schools.

Mo. lawmaker says he is gay, denounces school bill Posted: A Republican Missouri House member who previously served in the U.S. Air Force publicly announced Wednesday that he is gay and called upon GOP leaders in the state Legislature to withdraw a bill that would limit discussion of sexual orientation in public schools.

MIT, Harvard link up with free online courses Posted: BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both academic heavyweights and often neighborly rivals, are joining hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free. The two schools, located near each other in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are teaming up on an initiative called edX only five months after MIT rolled out MITx, its online learning system which allows students to earn certificates for completing course work from a distance. ...

S.Africa's Tutu brushes off US online petition row Posted: South Africa's veteran Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu on Wednesday brushed off rival online petitions as thousands of supporters rallied against calls for him to be banned from a US university.

10 High-Profile People Whose Degrees Were Revoked Posted: Although college and graduate school alumni may assume their diplomas are set in stone, there's no such thing as "no backsies" when it comes to college conferrals, as Joel McHale's character on the television show Community knows. McHale plays Jeff Winger, a lawyer who enrolls in community college after his degree is revoked. School administrators--both on television and in real life--seem to think of the degrees they dole out like driver's licenses, which can be suspended or revoked for bad behavior.

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