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While last year, students complained that some council shuttles failed to show up, departed late and failed to collect tickets properly, council members said there had been no complaints about this year's service...
...living satirizing the pompous and the hypocritical in films and on television, arrived last Thursday at the Rayburn House office building on Capitol Hill, site of the solemn Watergate impeachment hearings of 24 years ago, wearing a bright green baseball cap and trailing a cameraman. He was there to collect footage for his new cable-TV show, appropriately titled The Awful Truth. But he was having trouble mocking the independent counsel and the impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton. Why? Because, explained a dejected-looking Moore as he slumped against a wall outside the committee hearing room, "it's difficult...
Credit-card holders who let their monthly bills collect dust are paying a high price for tardiness. That's the conclusion of a new Consumer Action study, which shows that banks have increased late fees 75% since 1995, to $21 on average. To avoid stiff penalties, according to Bank Rate Monitor, try a local credit union or a low-fee national lender like Cleveland's Metropolitan Savings Bank or Chicago's Pullman Bank & Trust...
Since the Fanjuls control about one-third of Florida's sugar-cane production, that means they collect at least $60 million a year in subsidies, according to an analysis of General Accounting Office calculations. It's the sweetest of deals, and it's made the family, the proprietors of Casa de Campo, one of America's richest...
...perpetually reinvent one's avatar: photos and drawings, bonnets and six-guns, mascots and blackboards, halos and bongs. Palace vets amass hoards of props and trade them like baseball cards. Sites on the indispensable A-to-Z List of active palaces blare come-ons like HUGE PROP MALL! Collect enough props and build a cool palace, and you can stage a runway show in your own private Versailles. "Vanity pages built the Web," says Randy Farmer, co-founder of Electric Communities, the company that bought the Palace earlier this year and is behind its latest resurgence. "And vanity servers will...