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...fevered pitch for them to leap at multimillionaire Steve Forbes' offer to join his hired caravan to the city of Ames next week. That's where diehard Republicans will gather on Aug. 14 for a day of speeches and tub-thumping and then cast a vote for one of 11 candidates. The Iowa poll, when it was invented 20 years ago, was a fund-raising gimmick by the party to tap into campaign war chests by making the front runners and the foolhardy pay for the privilege of participating. But with a front-loaded primary season and George W. Bush...
HELPING BUYER BEWARE Home buyers with a government-backed mortgage should no longer be blindsided by costly repairs come Aug. 1. New rules set by the Federal Housing Administration, which will insure 1.3 million new mortgages this year, make appraisers responsible for detecting big defects such as a faulty furnace or a bad roof--and put the sellers on the hook for fixing them. Buyers will still be urged to hire an inspector for a more thorough review of the property...
...Renting appliances may be an option of convenience, especially if you don't want to lug a newly-bought refrigerator or bulky fan back to the homestead once Aug. 15 rolls around. Check out the Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) Campus Store. HSA offers deals for renting tall 30'' fans ($15 plus $15 deposit), refrigerators ($55 plus $35 deposit), microfridges ($105 plus $50 deposit), televisions and telephones. The Campus Store also sells lamps ($9 and up), helpful for brightening gloomy Yard accommodations...
Renting appliances may be an option of convenience, especially if you don't want to lug a newly-bought refrigerator or bulky fan back to the homestead once Aug. 15 rolls around. Check out the Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) Campus Store. HSA offers deals for renting tall 30" fans ($15 plus $15 deposit), refrigerators ($55 plus $35 deposit), microfridges ($105 plus $50 deposit), televisions and telephones. The Campus Store also sells lamps ($9 and up), helpful for brightening gloomy Yard accommodations...
...French art that he would become. But there was never a time in his life when he did not work, and he kept painting and drawing throughout his five-month sojourn among his brothers and cousins in New Orleans. Hence the shapely and interesting show on view through Aug. 29 at the New Orleans Museum of Art: "Degas and New Orleans." It consists only of some 40 paintings and drawings; it is, as curator Gail Feigenbaum puts it, a "cabinet exhibition," but one that's clearly focused and well worth seeing...