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...water.”The women’s squad once again brought home the best result, placing seventh at the Mrs. Hurst Bowl at Dartmouth College.Meanwhile, the Harvard co-ed lineup found a bit more trouble in its efforts at the Nevins Trophy regatta at the US Merchant Marine Academy and the Hatch Brown Trophy regatta hosted by MIT and Boston University, finishing 12th and 18th, respectively.A small Crimson co-ed contingent also competed at the Central Series Two regatta hosted by Boston College and UMASS Boston, finishing 14th as a team.MRS. HURST BOWLThe women’s team...
...never commissioned beyond the pilot. More recently, a U.S. version of “Kath & Kim,” Australia’s Logie-winning favorite, enjoyed only a brief, critically disastrous stay on NBC last year. In retrospect, though, creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant seem to have stumbled upon one of the hardiest premises in television history; “The Office” has been successfully transported to France, Canada, Germany, and Chile. The largely unimpressive pilot of the American “Office” had an almost identical script to that of the British premiere...
However, Piper Jaffray analyst Robert Napoli says it's merchants - not consumers - who will benefit from lower fees. "To suggest that American consumers could have saved $125 billion is very misleading," he says. "Interchange fees are paid by the merchant, and there have been studies done in Australia that said that consumers have not saved a penny by lowering interchange rates - that the merchants have not reduced prices...
...Merchant groups have been lobbying the Obama Administration on the issue for many months. Bills have been introduced in the House and Senate that, if passed, would allow merchants to negotiate their interchange fees directly with banks and credit-card networks. The Senate's version, introduced by Senator Richard Durbin, even calls for a panel of three electronic-payment-system judges to step in if merchants fail to reach a negotiated agreement...
...lean-to garage in Ravenscourt Park, an unassuming residential suburb in London's west, seems an unlikely setting for a copper still, but it's perfect for the artisanal barley vodka and dry gin being produced by two men whose names make them sound like the leads in a Merchant Ivory film - Stamford Galsworthy and Fairfax Hall...