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...lotteries, legalized gambling, day trading, Internet IPOs and, you guessed it, high-stakes game shows on every network. The message is clear: Patience is for losers; grab your share now. If you can't get past the qualifying round of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, take out a loan and spend anyway--as though you never even needed a lifeline. Trouble is, many of us do need a lifeline desperately. Consumers are up to their eyeballs in debt, and the strain shows. Personal bankruptcies, credit-card debt in default and installment loans more than 60 days past...
...state had previously proposed, among other options, that the University loan money to Harvard Pilgrim or that the University serve as a financial guarantor to outside investors in the HMO, according to Harvard Vice President for Finance Elizabeth C. "Beppie" Huidekoper...
Over the years, that's just what Harvard has done at Yale--died. It seemed that every time the Crimson strolled into town, the Bulldogs had the old Forum ghosts on loan from Montreal. Harvard last won at Ingalls Rink back in 1993, and even the 1989 team lost there...
Phone calls from Bush polling operations appear to have been attacks masquerading as opinion surveys--so-called push polls. These calls distorted McCain's record--exaggerating his role in the Keating Five savings and loan scandal, for example--in an attempt to push voters away from him. Though the Bush campaign claims only 300 of the calls were made in South Carolina, Bush's Michigan pollster, Fred Steeper, told TIME last week that his firm had placed several thousand such calls in his state. Steeper says he has stopped making the calls...
That isn't to say I didn't find any strong support. In Columbia, loan officer George Tisdale, 57, liked Bush's samurai tax cut and education policy. In Beaufort, retiree Lula ("Lou") Price, 74, agonized over her choice and even subjected herself to regular viewing of C-SPAN for enlightenment. She started Bush, tilted McCain and ended up sold on Bush as the man best suited to erase all memory of President Clinton...