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...meetings with Administration officials in 2001 and 2002, but he was later frozen out because aides became suspicious of his funding sources and annoyed that the issues he raised did not mesh with their agenda. A top Republican official said it was clear to him that Abramoff couldn't pick up the phone and reach Bush aides because Abramoff had asked the official to serve as an intermediary...
...forget that 529s are investments There is risk in any 529 fund and, in most cases, no guarantee that you won't lose money. Pick a plan that has a range of investments, from stocks to a money-market fund or other cashlike option, so that you can move into safer securities as your kids get older. (In other words, you shouldn't be loaded up on tech stocks when Junior is, well, a high school junior.) Most plans you buy directly (i.e., without a financial adviser) include age-based portfolios. That means the fund company decides how you should...
...There’s been a decrease in the number of people who pick up the book, but you can’t really flip through facebook.com and see the class as a whole,” says Byrns...
...pretty close to finishing all the major details and am wrapping up the minor details,” Straight says about planning her August wedding. “I still need to pick flowers and finalize invitations, but I’ve had the church and the reception hall since October...
...everyone—although that matters little since 80 percent of applicants were turned away, and upperclassmen have no chance of enrolling at all. One of the larger ironies of Harvard’s free range education, where students may roam a 938-page course catalog and pick whatever makes them happy, is that amidst the spasms of academic choice, course offerings have often become so peripheral that the only recourse to general education is to take impersonal, large surveys like History 10a (120 students) or English 10a (141 students). Those students who would prefer a 15-person Great Books...