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...Total loan repayments for $300,000, 30-year fixed mortgage...
Money issues are a common source of strife between brothers and sisters: Why wasn't that loan repaid? Who can afford the bigger house? How should the family business be run? Behavior outside the family's value system can also trip the switch: coming out of the closet, marrying interracially or converting to a new religion. Then there are cutoffs linked to extreme emotional states, the reasons for which--such as untreated mental illness, substance abuse, incest and violence--may never be brought out into the open...
...announced their recommendation that, starting Jan. 31, overdue fines at Widener and Lamont Libraries will double as part of a plan formulated by the results of a year-long study. By doubling these fines and changing the period students can have books, the new plan will impose a uniform loan and fine procedure on all the University's libraries...
...massive library system is surely in the interest of students, this new plan is not. We urge the Harvard's Faculty to change these recommendations at today's Faculty meeting. Library fines are meant to keep students prompt in returning books and allowing others to use them; the uniform loan period will surely help students keep all these dates straight as they stare at their bookshelves. However, the decision to double the fines, for whatever reason, is a poor one. Students are notoriously short on money, and students are careless, not malicious, in keeping a book past its due date...
...could get cute and explicate the movie as an anticorporate parable. Without George and his community-conscious building and loan, the cartoonishly bad Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) would have synergized Bedford Falls into a grim and soulless company town. Do people respond to the movie as a protest against takeovers? I doubt...