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...program was used successfully this fall. On Friday, members of the election commission and HCS tested the program and reported it was working without a hitch...
...crave big dividends, you're pretty much stuck with the tainted tobacco industry or iffy electric utilities. You could choose other stocks, sell them as they rise and live off the gains. Indeed, tax law favors such capital gains over dividend income for most people. But the hitch appears when the stock market reverses or slows, which it eventually must. Then, investors seeking steady income are stuck with a sickly 1 point something. And given today's record-high profits, that's a crime...
...earlier memoir, Leaving Home, Buchwald described a somewhat bleak childhood spent in foster homes. I'll Always Have Paris (Putnam; 236 pages; $24.95) takes up the story after Buchwald completed a hitch in the Marines and three years at the University of Southern California. In June 1948 Buchwald sailed for France, where he took certain liberties with the G.I. Bill. He told the Veterans Administration he would be studying French, but he never showed up for class. Indeed, he never learned the language, getting by on body English and the Franglais that eventually made his Paris dispatches (including, among other...
...nearly five years the Canadian communications satellite known as Anik E-1 circled the earth without a serious hitch. Last spring, though, the $220 million spacecraft faltered. For hours, until users could switch over to backup systems, the transmission of all sorts of critical data--credit-card transactions, newspaper layouts, electronic paging requests, television and radio broadcasts--stopped. It took scientists a while, but they finally figured out what had caused the outage: storm damage...
...Sony Cherie any time soon. Here's a guide to the area movie theaters Harvard students are more likely to visit this summer, the "quirk" which makes each theater unique, and why getting there and getting a seat can be a Mission: Impossible. The Theater The Gimmick The Hitch The Brattle Theater Great old and arty movies you'd otherwise have to rent, if you could even find them in video stores. This one's easy to get to--it's right next to HMV in Brattle Square. But getting a seat can still be a struggle. Imagine an audience...