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...quickly paid off. Over the many deals, BVG received cash payments from the American investors totaling €68.9 million, or about $90.6 million at current exchange rates. BVG in turn paid the American investors monthly rent to use the equipment, a return the Americans enhanced with that big tax break. For its part, BVG used the money it derived from the deals to pay down debt, which has saved it €35 million ($46 million) in interest payments. It was a shell game of sorts, but everyone made out - except, of course, the U.S. taxpayers, who were unwittingly subsidizing Germany...
...feel more compelled to stay just to pay off their debts. Coyotes charged Salvador $8,500 for his journey; he is paying it off in $150 installments every two weeks (the same amount he sends his family). At that rate, it will take him two more years just to break even on the debt. He doesn't fear detention; he fears failure. "I'm afraid of not making it work here," he says. "It needs to work...
...Harvard men’s heavyweight and lightweight crew teams will finally get to break the ice this weekend with their first races of 2009 on the Charles River...
...Regardless of the outcome for the Stein and Biglin cups, both squads appear ready to dig in for a competitive spring season. Like his heavyweight counterpart, Barchick expressed excitement at the chance to break in the Charles, even if spring warmth remains elusive...
...refusal to say whether some Houses will be closed over January. Asking students and tutors who remain on campus to relocate for a month involves a slew of complicated adjustments. Will students in the Houses to remain open be required to pack up and store their belongings before winter break to enable J-term students to move in? Will tutors —the vast majority of whom live at Harvard year-round, with school and work commitments that require them to remain at Harvard during January—also be required to relocate...