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...Technology that is already fairly old allows credit card companies to keep tabs on what customers are doing with their money, which includes where they shop, what they spend, and whether they pay their bills for other credit cards, their car payments, and mortgages. The Senate recently passed a "Credit Card Holders Bill of Rights" that will make it more difficult for lenders to take personal financial information and decrease people's credit lines or raise their interest rates. The Bill of Rights will make most of the payment tracking software useless. The banks that bought it will have...
...This last trait has, it seems, even infiltrated student groups with a supposed commitment to charity. Thanks to the lofty claims these organizations parade on posters, purchasers are led to believe that all proceeds from the highly priced tickets are donated. However, with an interpretation of honesty that Bill Clinton would be proud of, there are often no actual profits—and consequently, no donations. To market an event based on the assumption of charity and then fail to give away a cent is the peak of hypocrisy. Equally reprehensible is the tacit acceptance suggested by the administration?...
...meeting last night in the Kirkland Junior Common room for students and representatives from a variety of University services to discuss the University response. The meeting included representatives from Harvard University Police Department, the Harvard University Bureau of Study Counsel, and Institute of Politics Director and former Nashville mayor Bill Purcell, whom Conley said he invited because of his experience with coordination and dissemination of information. During the meeting, students voiced their communication concerns, according to Conley. Conley said he was working with the administration towards a better coordination of the messaging system, and a reconsideration of what sort...
...wake of last month's suicides, a bill was introduced in Congress that would protect all students - including gay or transgender ones - from bullying and harassment and would require schools to report on the prevalence of such harmful activity to the Department of Education each year. But bullying is a problem teachers and administrators say is hard to define, let alone monitor - and one that could leave schools open to more lawsuits from the parents of bullied children. Indeed, a lawyer for Atlanta resident Masika Bermudez says she plans to sue the DeKalb County School System for a "substantial amount...
...case has renewed national attention on bullying and how schools define, prevent and respond to it. The federal anti-bullying bill introduced in the House of Representatives on May 5 would require schools receiving funding from the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to implement comprehensive anti-bullying policies that define categories targeted by bullies - among them race, religion and sexual orientation. Another provision would require states to report bullying and harassment data to the Federal Government. Although current laws provide federal support to promote school safety, they do not focus on issues of bullying or harassment...