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...that tour the piece will have racked up almost 500 performances, and requests to stage it continue to pour in from theater managers around the world. So far, the original investors have recouped their investment and made a 12% profit - "Better, just, than a high-interest account," says Noble...
...they plan to pay for college this year. One in five parents borrowing money reported either taking out a second mortgage of more than $10,000 or charging some portion of college expenses to a credit card. In a study released earlier this summer, consumer advocate U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) found roughly a quarter of students reported billing their tuition to a credit card. Such borrowing practices generally carry along with them much higher interest rates and fees than private student loans. "Using a credit card to pay for your education is absolutely the worst financial decision...
...many parents and students say they have little choice other than to deplete their savings or grapple with high interest rates down the road. Indeed, among respondents in the Sallie Mae/Gallup poll who said they were using credit cards to pay tuition bills, no parents and only 15% of students said they were doing so because they thought they'd get a better interest rate. Nearly half reported using Visa or MasterCard to finance their education because they had no alternative. Some 3% of survey respondents said they have resorted to withdrawing money early from retirement savings, which can carry...
...When deciding how to pay for college, families should start by contacting their school's financial aid office. About $130 billion a year is available in scholarships and grants. The first step in borrowing money for school is to max out on low-interest government programs such as federal Stafford loans. In the past, lots of families have turned to private loans to make up the difference, with borrowers taking out about $17 billion in such loans during the 2006-2007 school year. But as credit markets dried up last spring, many private lenders either went out of business...
...just activists who are feeling the pressure. Li Heping, a public interest lawyer who has been detained and held for days at a time by security forces during past sensitive periods such as Communist Party Congresses, said he had been followed the day of the opening ceremony, but not arrested. Nevertheless, Li added, the authorities have been growing increasingly strict and may well remain so after the Games are over. "There used to be some sensitive events and days when we would be watched, such as June 4th," Li said, referring to the anniversary of the bloody suppression of protests...