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...enough to characterize foreign policy so starkly? "Behind every great fortune there is a crime," said Balzac. Behind every great nation too. Jefferson certainly wanted to do justice to the Indians. But he knew the white man needed to instill fear in the Indian or the American experiment would fail. How characteristically Jefferson: an offhanded trope that sublimely captures the central tension of all foreign policy--that between morality and necessity, power and principle...
Avoid new debt if you can, and explore alternatives if you can't. For instance, you may be able to find a moderate fixed-rate credit card. That beats transferring your balance to a new card with a low teaser rate every few months. Most people fail to stay on top of that strategy, and many teaser rates don't apply to an old balance anyway. Home-equity lines of credit are easy to get, but the rate usually floats. Consider instead a fixed-rate home-equity loan for a one-time consolidation of debt. Beware though. Some lenders...
...other classmates with whom I started Harvard in the fall of 1996, I have not finished my four years here. (Unsatisfied with the options for Study Abroad, I took a leave of absence last year and spent the year in Jerusalem.) And so, as my blockmates finish pass-fail finals, send acceptance cards to law and medical schools, buy their tickets to Senior Week activities and conspire to sell everything larger than a breadbox at fire-sale prices, I have quietly been searching out a thesis topic, thinking about fellowships applications and rather desperately trying to figure...
...fail, Breckin? It was such an incredible movie...
...designated a beneficiary on every IRA account. That's not enough, though. Keep copies. You can't rely on a financial institution to have documents 20 or 30 years after an account was opened. Decades of bank mergers have resulted in lousy financial records throughout the system. If you fail to name a beneficiary or if no one can prove that you did, your IRA may be liquidated and taxed. Then the proceeds can be added to the estate and taxed again--as in our opening example...