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...typical student, graduating with about $17,000 in federal loans, consolidation is wise. Stretching out the payments while lowering the interest rate can give you the wiggle room to knock down the credit-card bills that inhibit saving. Don't make a move before July 1--unless you apply through a consolidator like Collegiate Funding Services www.cfsloans.com) which is accepting applications that it won't process until then. And although these rates will be in force for a year, if you're in the six-month grace period in which you don't have to pay anything, you have...
...black wrist-length gloves. The hat would usually have a small, black veil which would partially cover the face (peering through mesh was considered very sexy). Christian Dior and his “New Look” was the designer of choice and we would wear “knock-offs” of his fashions. Many Radcliffe women scorned any female who wore make-up and had an interest in her appearance. “Frivolous and non-intellectual” was the verdict. Because so many Harvard men preferred Wellesley women to Radcliffe women, all Wellesley women were...
...biddy (a term used to describe the wonderful Irish maids who, as long as the remuneration was adequate, looked after the students) walked into his room using her latchkey and found him on the floor in his birthday suit. Oh my God! she exclaimed. No Madam, not GodArthur Darby Knock! The story may be apocryphal, but we all knew it at the time...
...buoyant (Anakin makes a pear float, in a literal fruit loop) or imposing (the final vista of an orange sky). And they give a vertiginous kick to the fight scenes. A mile-high car chase has cool dips and speed bumps. An arena battle begins as a Gladiator knock-off and then escalates, with lumbering monsters that recall the peerless work of stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen. A light-saber duel in the dark has loads of drama and glamour...
...immediate issue at hand is reducing the number of recruited football players from 35 to 25—which some Harvard football players estimate could knock the team to Division III quality within five years...