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...issued gift cards sold at their neighborhood mall would be the ideal gift; she could redeem them at any store in the shopping center. But nearly six months later, when Arlene tried to buy a $20.50 blouse with $2.50 in cash plus a gift card with $18 of unspent credit, the sales clerk said it couldn't be done, citing a fine-print rule on the back of the card prohibiting purchases for more than the available balance. Norman eventually had to pay cash for the blouse...
...sorts of businesses quickly realized that the cards were cash cows. Now banks, credit-card companies, various financial-services providers and such chains as Starbucks sell branded prepaid cardsnot only at their own outlets but also through grocery stores and shopping malls as well as over the Internet. The newly reopened toy store F.A.O. Schwarz is even offering a $100,000 gift card. Some of the cards include ATM access. Some let holders reload them; others permit transfer of funds to other cards or individuals. In one of the latest incarnations, at last count about 1,000 companies give their...
...bill were the right ones, I'm not convinced that it would have gotten the job done. It could easily have become a familiar legislative charade--a "reform" is passed, there's a nice bill-signing ceremony in the Rose Garden, various pols (including the President) get to take credit, but nothing really changes ... except for the accretion of another sedimentary layer of semi-powerless bureaucracy. In truth, it is impossible for Congress to reorganize the inner workings of the Executive Branch without the full support of the President, and I'm not so sure George Bush really favored either...
...Viking hats and MAC quad-as-Beirut-table may never have materialized, but Paul and Andy have pulled off some pretty amazing photo shoots nevertheless. Credit for this year’s colorful covers, spreads and As it Were pages should go straight to this duo’s New Quincy pad. These self-titled media directors have drawn on their connections to get shots of the women’s basketball team, the ultimate team’s infamous dancing Santa and even unwilling friends. The only consolation for FM’s loss of these two? They?...
This advice comes not because engaging in this pseudo-scam might ruin your credit or irritate your friends (which it will), but because the iPod is an elitist, antisocial device that provokes the kind of class divisions of which only Karl Marx would approve. The campus is already divided between the conversation-loving proletariat and the expanding bourgeoisie who choose to forego all verbal communication with fellow students and withdraw entirely into the acoustic bliss of the iPod, or some inferior substitute. Don’t join the ranks of the latter...