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First, determine how many of those 9,000 minutes are peak ("anytime") and how many are off-peak (usually nights and weekends). A plan with 8,700 off-peak minutes but only 300 peak is no bargain. Even long-winded midnight gabbers rarely chew up more than 3,000 off-peak minutes. And for most people, 300 peak minutes is the bare minimum...
...Japan is on the mend due primarily to U.S.-led demand for exports, the country could be poised for more pain. For one thing, the yen has been strengthening against the dollar, making Japanese exports less of a bargain overseas. That caused the Bank of Japan to go on a dollar-buying binge last week to keep the yen in check. Plus, there's no consumer boom inside Japan to take up slack if the U.S. recovery stalls. Businesses, operating with excess capacity, still aren't investing in new machinery, factories or technology, nor are they hiring. Unemployment remains high...
...melancholy fact that the Star Wars films with the strongest acting and densest mood are The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi--the two that Lucas didn't direct. That may be the bargain a director makes when he goes over to the digital side. He can animate a pixel but not a Portman. An often enchanting presence, the young star is stiff and humorless here. Christensen has to carry the emotional load. And he does a fine job: his Anakin is both a petulant, impetuous boy and a young man with an appraising stare. He suggests...
...university’s continuing refusal to recognize and bargain with the union showcases its priorities: pocketbooks over principle. The RAs are students employed by the university, performing services for which they are paid a certain amount. In the relationship between the university administration and the RAs—the latter represented by their democratically selected union—power should not rest solely on the side of the administration...
...ongoing trouble with the Center for Government and International Studies tunnel, this is not the time for Harvard to be waging battles that promise only small benefits for the University but major costs for neighbors. The University should respect the needs of the Riverside community and resolve to bargain, in earnest, with the people of Cambridge...