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...Consider the teaser rate. More than a third of consumers pick one credit card over another based on which issuer has the lowest introductory interest rate. And yet people often do so in a way that leaves them with higher finance charges over time. In one study, University of Maryland economists Haiyan Shui and Lawrence Ausubel watched people pick a card with a teaser rate of 4.9% for six months over a card with a teaser rate of 7.9% for 12 months. That would make sense if the people then paid off their balances within six months. But many didn...
...year. Manuel has long complained that while he built government resources, other departments squandered them. Fifteen years since the end of apartheid, the big questions facing South Africa are less about how to improve race relations - though divisions persist - than unemployment (officially 21%, and probably much higher), poverty and inequality (which even the ANC admits has risen since apartheid) and AIDS (whose treatment former President Thabo Mbeki, bizarrely, held to be a drug company conspiracy). Service delivery has slipped since 1994, and is the big question facing the new government. Manuel's new role gives him the opportunity to improve...
...Massachusetts District Judge was receptive to his argument, granting the request in a move that would have allowed the state’s first-ever live Internet coverage of a federal court hearing. But the recording industry appealed to a higher court two days later, putting a hold on the broadcast and winning no friends on the Tenenbaum side, which saw what came to be known as the “First Circuit Appeal” as yet another move by powerful interests to restrict access to information online. “At a very basic level, this is about...
...Charges of hypocrisy ignited immediately: it was all just "a clear bid to help Mama rise higher in the Republican Party," said Fox News contributor Ellen Ratner. "It doesn't look good for a future presidential hopeful to have a daughter who had a child and did not marry the dad. They had to re-brand Bristol Palin so that she fits into the conservative base." It was a mixed message, others charged: "Don't have sex as a teenager, but if you do, you might end up a happy celebrity with this beautiful baby." Still others disqualified her from...
...television channel NTV broadcast a documentary about the Battles of Rzhev, a series of offensives launched by Soviet forces against the Germans between January 1942 and March 1943. The documentary raised popular anger, especially among WWII veterans, after it exposed the number of Soviet soldiers killed, which was much higher than most Russians believed - around a million compared to around 500,000 on the Nazi side - and presented a negative interpretation of Soviet tactics by, for example, showing how shocked German soldiers who had fought in the battles were at the way Soviet troops were thrown into the fight with...