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...including a staggering $1 million in a single three-hour period - to buy postage stamps using international reply coupons. This strategy, Ponzi promised, enabled one to purchase postage at European currencies' lower fixed rates before redeeming them in U.S dollars at higher values. "For instance," Zuckoff explained in a Dec. 15 article for FORTUNE, "a person could buy 66 International Reply Coupons in Rome for the equivalent of $1. Those same 66 coupons would cost $3.30 in Boston," where Ponzi was based. But there weren't enough coupons in circulation to make the plan workable. The ploy bore the hallmarks...
...executive director of the Harvard Square Businesses Association. “It is our mission to promote commerce in Harvard Square.” HSBA coordinates several events throughout the year to encourage more people to come to the Square, including the winter celebration Sparklefest, to take place on Dec. 20 and Dec. 21. Sparklefest will feature ice skating at the Charles Hotel, a holiday parade, and promotional offers from local stores and restaurants. Jillson said that while the association is always looking for new ways to reach out to wider shopper demographics, shops and restaurants are making an extra...
...reduce carbon emissions. “This has to go ahead regardless,” he said. Lyman Antolini expressed similar sentiments in her Nov. 30 sermon at St. James Episcopal Church in the Square, where she announced that the church would be participating in the Dec. 15 bell ringing. Antolini said there was an “apocalyptic need” for environmental awareness and action to cut emissions. “This Advent, the dark diagnosis is that world carbon levels are destructively high, and we must negotiate with all other consumer nations to configure a sustainable energy...
...According to an e-mailed statement from CHA spokesman Doug Bailey, 1,730 patients use the clinic at the Oliver Farnum Senior Center, and CHA has been contacting them to inform them that they should plan for their future medical care. Of the 800 patients CHA had reached by Dec. 10, only six had indicated that they would leave the alliance for another healthcare provider, Bailey said. CHA is a public hospital system that has several locations in the northern Boston metropolitan area. Many of its services are aimed at serving low-income patients, thus making the alliance heavily reliant...
CORRECTION Due to an error in Undergraduate Council record-keeping, the Dec. 15 article "UC Approves ATM for Currier" incorrectly stated that John F. Pararas '08-'09 had been expelled from the Council due to excessive absences. In fact, Pararas has not been absent quite enough to qualify for expulsion, and UC Vice President Randall Sarafa '09 announced over the UC-General e-mail list Thursday evening that Pararas had not been expelled...