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...avoid penalties? Call the card issuer and ask to have them removed. If you are a good customer, the issuer may let you off the hook once or even twice. And when you get a bill, make the minimum payment immediately and another payment as soon as you are able. Managing your credit cards takes some effort; avoiding 21,000% interest is worth...
...132—and Harvard Square will almost certainly lose a longtime landmark—when the Tower Records music store on Mt. Auburn Street closes this winter. The store has sold two dozen of Mure’s CDs over the past six months, and he was expecting payment in September. But in August, Tower declared bankruptcy for the third time in its 46-year history. And on Saturday, a liquidation company, the Great American Group, bought Tower off the auction block. “Everything from inflation to people using computers to sharing music more?...
President Bush is expected to sign a bill banning the use of any U.S. credit-card or payment system (such as PayPal) to bet online. A ban could devastate the $12 billion Net gaming industry...
...abroad. In an open trade, Harvard could demand more scope to spend the money as it sees fit. Needless to say, it could be uncomfortable for the student in question to know that her place was bought for her, but with the appropriate non-disclosure agreements, and perhaps delayed payment for a few years, no one need ever be the wiser about any specific case. Of course, it might cause a certain amount of embarrassment to be so openly mercenary, but ultimately, for a school dedicated to veritas, a little honesty wouldn’t go astray. Cormac A. Early...
...recent weeks between Fatah gunmen loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas militants backing Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. Both sides were anxious to work out a formula that would end Western sanctions, which had choked off foreign aid and tax money to the struggling Palestinian Authority and prevented the payment of salaries to 160,000 government workers over the past five months. The embargo had been imposed after Hamas, which won the January elections, took office in March. Israel, the U.S. and Europe all consider Hamas a terrorist organization, and made ending the financial blockade conditional on Hamas recognizing Israel...