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Last Thursday, Michele Bedell, a student at Virginia's Radford University, went before the United states Congress to request relief from the loan sharks of the credit card industry.
Testifying before the House Banking Subcommittee on Consumer Credit and Insurance, Bedell explained that she had once been an ordinary, happy-go-lucky college student, before Visa and the Discover Card targeted her for financial ruin.
"I used the card frugally," Bedell asserted, and everything was going along smoothly until--get this--her balance increased!
Harvard president Neil Rudenstine admires her for knowing "that there is a lot to get through in life." When Harriman wants to be alone to think things out, she either climbs a hill or gets on a horse. She is guarded about her image. She initially agreed to write her...
In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley by Sally Bedell Smith. Paley, the founder of CBS and a Manhattan socialite, died not a moment too soon to avoid seeing himself debunked in this best-selling biography. "Paley," says the author, "was as spoiled as a man could...