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Gary C. Sing, a graduate student studying neuroengineering, started a petition last Wednesday to protest the $35 per semester fee that students face if they choose to pay their room and board in monthly installments rather than through a lump...
...adds that it may even lure new members to the site. But the free-music model looks like it may end up costing MySpace and other providers more than they had originally bargained: In an agreement announced Sept. 23, the music industry said it planned to adopt a sliding fee scale for free-music-streaming sites; instead of the 9.1 cents per song that is currently paid to songwriters, composers and producers, streaming sites will now owe about 10.5% of their overall profits. For listeners, however, the music will still be 100% free...
...BAILOUT Less than a year after leaving Harvard to return to a wealthy private financial fund, Mohamed A. El-Erian said in an interview with Reuters that his $812-billion firm would offer to manage part of the government’s proposed $700-billion bailout package for no fee. El-Erian—who managed Harvard’s now-$36.9 billion endowment from 2006 until late last year—currently serves as chief executive of California-based PIMCO, one of the world’s largest bond funds. The offer comes as Congress debates a plan...
...holdings online daily to prove they don't own a lick of dubious debt issued by other embattled financial firms. And then, on Sept. 19, the Treasury Department announced a $50 billion program to insure the holdings of any money market mutual fund - retail or institutional - that pays a fee to join the new program...
...demand that they deliver babies in clinics, where nurses can monitor their work. An hour east of Freetown, I visited a village where local elders had just passed a law requiring all women to give birth at a clinic or face fines of about $8--more than the clinic fee. And the World Bank, UNICEF and the British government's Department for International Development have agreed to jointly invest $262 million over the next three years to overhaul Sierra Leone's shambolic health system. "We will lose two or three more generations," says Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF's representative in Freetown...