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...Fall. While most airlines are nickel and diming their passengers, in a bit of refreshing news, Qantas is cutting fees. Since the cost of fuel has dropped, you'll pay less in fuel surcharges, which are normally tacked onto fares: They'll go down $20 on Qantas flights from Australia to Europe, and $10 from Australia to the U.S. It's not much, but when's the last time you remember an airline saving you money...
...Monday the House of Representatives saved us from the greedy fingers of Wall Street. Rather than surrender a single nickel of taxpayer money to the mob that gave us Alt-A mortgages, collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and credit-default swaps, the House voted down the big bailout. Mr. Market was a very unhappy camper, dropping 777 points and change - or $1.2 trillion in market value. "This is a huge cow patty with a piece of marshmallow stuck in the middle of it, and I am not going to eat that cow patty," vowed Representative Paul Broun, Republican of Georgia...
...back as the penny-saving Ben Franklin and the conquistadores chasing their dreams of golden cities, this has been a country of mixed minds about how to get rich. We extol the conservative Warren Buffett model: selling 4 cent Cokes for a nickel and conscientiously saving the proceeds, investing in quality goods and well-run enterprises and shunning a penthouse on Central Park when a five-bedroom home in Omaha, Neb., will do. At the same time, we're always on the lookout for the next gold rush, the next Powerball, the next bubble. The fact that Wall Street banks...
...unless they find quick answers the game could rapidly become a shootout. Harvard, while returning senior All-American cornerback Andrew Berry, must replace departed All-Ivy corner Steve Williams ’07, a role that will be filled by junior Derrick Barker, the Crimson’s nickel back last season. Two new starters will take over at the safety positions, where senior Ryan Barnes and sophomore Collin Zych will attempt to fill the shoes of two All-Ivy graduates...
TIME: What, if anything, links these essays to Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch...