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...Eagles were led by guard Malcolm Huckaby. He tallied 20 points, including a deadly four-for-five shooting from the three-point line. The three pointer was the bane of Harvard from the beginning...
...same low rates have been the bane of savers -- particularly senior citizens -- who have watched their income from investments rapidly shrink away. A six-month bank CD that paid 8% interest a year ago now yields just 4.9%. "People are turning off their phones for a month to get by," laments Irene Farr, 73, a retired clerical worker who lives in a senior community in South Bend, Ind. "They just have no way to live. It's a dignified form of destitution." Moreover, the low rates that have caused such pain have so far failed to pull the economy...
...here so they could put in somebody of their own. The next thing I knew, I heard the White House leaking that the President was trying to force me out." Fearing for the FDIC's independence, Seidman decided to stay. Such frank talk may have been the bane of Bush, but it could be the stuff of stardom. Starting this week, Seidman will serve as correspondent and commentator for CNBC, the financially focused cable channel...
Since then, Clinton has run home to his liberalism. As late as 1988 he wrote an Op-Ed for The New York Times urging transportation tax hikes and greater federal control over local spending (the bane of small-government conservatives...like Bill Clinton...
...that subjected liquor, but not American-made wines, to an excise tax. "It is an error to view a tax on that liquor as merely a tax on the rich," he wrote. "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey." Jefferson, alas, failed miserably to convert fellow citizens to his favorite beverage. Americans last year drank 23.5 gal. of beer and 26.6 gal. of coffee per capita but only 2.1 gal. of wine. As a result, although the U.S. ranks sixth among the world's wine-producing nations...