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Credit card telemarketers have recently called large numbers of Harvard students, insinuating affiliation with the College and failing to heed “no call” requests. Callers, identifying themselves as representatives of Clout Visa, have asked students for personal information, including birthdays and Social Security numbers...
...influx of solicitations from Clout representatives—whom some students say already know significant personal information—has been unusually aggressive...
...weeks they called me more than forty times,” said H. Michael Rosenberg ’05. “Visa was terrible and said it was not their responsibility [to remove me from the phone list] even though Clout was signing people up for Visa cards. Visa said that I could either get a new phone number or call the Attorney General...
Steven M. Melendez ’07 also said that the Clout representatives were unrelenting in their phone calls...
...unique-a consequence of the state's artificially low property taxes, cemented in place by the infamous Proposition 13 passed in 1978-but most states are now being squeezed as the Federal Government cuts spending on everything from cops to Medicaid. The public employees have used their political clout to protect unaffordable fringe benefits and antiquated work rules, even as employees in the private sector have been forced to accept reductions in health plans and pensions. "The question is, Is the state being run for the benefit of its citizens or its employees...