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Harvard’s Financial Aid Office awards financial aid by default with the College’s room and board fees included...
...second 24-hour strike in two weeks, which grounded planes, stopped public transportation and shuttered schools. The recently announced belt-tightening measures include tax hikes and government wage freezes. Greece faces a budget deficit estimated at 12.7% of GDP and the possibility of being the first nation to default among the 16 countries that use the euro...
...recent study of credit trends, FICO - maker of the loan-scoring system most widely used by banks - found that among people with high credit scores, consumers were more likely to default on their mortgage than on credit-card or auto loans. In fact, borrowers with a 700-709 score, which is about the middle of FICO's range, were 25% more likely to default on their mortgage loan than on their credit-card commitments. That's a shift from just two years ago, when the opposite was true. (See the best business deals...
...anything but quantitative—statistically, even the most impulsive civilian guesser is likely to make at least one correct prediction. This lends a satisfying, authoritative feel to one’s preferences regarding, for instance, Meryl Streep—who should be given an Oscar every year, by default, just to thank her for being Meryl Streep—versus Sandra Bullock—who, incredibly, is somehow still allowed to make films after appearing in “All About Steve.” The cult popularity of the Golden Raspberry Awards (the “Razzies?...
...were necessary to succinctly describe the reputability of Kevin Smith’s latest buddy-cop venture “Cop Out,” it would be best to default to a typical line from Tracy Morgan’s character in the movie: “I set records with my shit-turds!” Unfortunately, “Cop Out” represents a literal cop out by Kevin Smith in the production of a “shit-turd” of a film...