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...lower your payments, but it will give you a steady base for planning a budget and help you avoid a jolt from any further rate hikes. "It's foolish not to take advantage of the opportunity to lock in a reasonable rate given that they could still climb much higher," says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mortgage Mess | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

Well, the American family is under threat today. The very women who were told they could climb the corporate ladder, and indeed encouraged to do so, must now partake in a Sophie’s choice between equally desirable public and private ends. This is not ideal. Women should, so to speak, be able to bake their cake...

Author: By Ramya Parthasarathy | Title: Let Them Eat Cake | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

...just because we sleep between Ivy-covered walls, it doesn’t mean we sleep soundly. And as we climb higher, the tower weakens further under instability of its hasty structure. Some breeze might come along and poke out a rung, and suddenly we’ll be back on the ground, surrounded by the rubble of our own accomplishments...

Author: By Paul R. Katz, Emma M. Lind, Sahil K. Mahtani, Matthew S. Meisel, Juliet S. Samuel, and Lauren A.E. Schuker | Title: One Week Later | 4/28/2006 | See Source »

...million insider trading fiasco at Goldman Sachs.These scandals, and the Faculty of Arts & Sciences’ ousting of President Lawrence H. Summers, have made 2006 a nightmarish year for Harvard’s public relations. Yet, inevitably, 20,000 over-achieving high school seniors will try to climb into our Ivy Tower next winter, U.S. World & News Report’s ritual crowning of Harvard will stabilize our jolted foundations, and most of our graduating class will exit Johnston Gate with promising jobs. For Harvard is Harvard: the most famous college in the world. When my brother...

Author: By Andrew D. Fine, | Title: Harvard: Resting on Laurels? | 4/27/2006 | See Source »

...easy to imagine that doctors don't get sick. Surely the hygienic shield of the sterile white coat guards them from ever having to put on the flapping gown and flimsy bracelet, climb meekly into the crisp bed and be at the mercy of the U.S. health-care system. And if somehow they did enter the hospital as a patient, physicians ought to have every advantage: an insider's knowledge, access to top specialists, built-in second opinions, no waiting, no insane bureaucratic battles and no loss of identity or dignity when you turn into the "bilateral mastectomy in Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q: What Scares Doctors? A: Being the Patient | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

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