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...banks' margins are squeezed, there's one other looming consequence: higher fees. "They've got to do something to remain profitable," says Rick Barham, CEO of Market Rates Insight, which tracks pricing trends for financial institutions. His firm is being flooded with requests for fee studies - competitive overviews of how much other banks are getting away with charging customers for things like bounced checks. Many banks are moving to a tiered fee structure. The first time you overdraw your account, you might be charged $28, but do it again and the penalty becomes...
...their mother-in-law when she comes to visit, this fact doesn’t come to life. Moreover, it is not a far stretch to invite a nice co-worker home to meet your family or share in another everyday experience. Witnessing these commonplace events provides insight into the nuances of culture...
...explored the selected plays to what seems their absolute fullest extent, and provided her readers with an understanding of Shakespeare to rival even the most in-depth college courses. One of the greatest virtues of Garber’s newest work is her skillful combination of broad scope and insightful depth, as she chooses 10 plays to examine in the context of modern culture. These are 10 of the more widely recognized theatrical works by the Bard, and by her careful selection Garber widens her potential audience to those who may have had little Shakespeare exposure (including, as Garber informs...
...what we’re doing and tell something about ourselves. If it gives some insight——you can’t always get to the heart of the matter——but if you can show some insight into the people that are so talented and so wonderful, that we can admire, then we can learn something from that, I think it’s great that it can play back into our lives. Because, really, this is us, this is photographing...
...just as useful a means of gauging the social climate as any social science experiment. Only literary analysis can do what empirical analysis cannot: uncover what people are feeling and how they interact during a certain period in time. Rather than wielding literature’s formidable power of insight, however, academics are often too busy observing topics in the intellectual stratosphere. We are taught what words mean but not how to use them, and these concepts without meaning gradually fill our heads like sawdust. Ubiquitous buzzwords like “reification” and “hegemony?...