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...every $100 they spend using credit cards. The fee is actually paid by retailers, though consumers feel it in a higher retail price. This rate is twice that charged in the U.K. and New Zealand, four times the rate levied in Australia and more than six times the cross-border rate charged in the European Union, the study says. (Read a brief history of credit cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailers Ready for Fight on Credit-Card Fees | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...adjustments by the current administration as it reviews the detention policies of the previous administration. Already, the administration has announced its attention to close the current prison facilities at Bagram, to have them replaced by a newer, more humane complex, and to inform the International Committee of the Red Cross of the identities of the detainees being held...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Less Bad, But Not Good | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...okay the visit and condemned by Beijing if he did. Ma took a gamble: he approved the trip - and bet on China's leaders appreciating his dilemma. They did. Their censure was directed solely at the DPP, with no mention of Ma whatsoever. Far from harming cross-strait relations, the Dalai Lama's visit revealed how mature those relations have become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting It Strait | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...occasion, the contestants will jump around the board instead of taking a category with the clues in order. So I decided many years ago I was going to cross the clues off so I do not, in error, go back and reread them. I'm pretty good now. I never read a clue that has a big X through it. That's why they pay me the big bucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Alex Trebek | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...loggerheads over a range of issues." The Pakistani security establishment is wary of Tehran's relationship with India, and it suspects Iran of allowing its territory to be used by Indian-backed Baluch separatist fighters in southwestern Pakistan. Tehran, for its part, has repeatedly complained to Islamabad about cross-border attacks mounted by Jundullah, a shadowy Baluch militant group that uses Pakistani Baluchistan as a staging ground for attacks inside Iran. On May 28, the group claimed responsibility for a bombing that killed at least 20 in the border town of Zahedan. Iran and Pakistan have also been at loggerheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Sanctions: Why Pakistan Won't Help | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

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