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...account at a large bank instead of a small one, according to the U.S. Public Interest Group. The gap grew to 100%, or $110, when large banks were compared with credit unions. At the NationsBank branch in Woodstock, Ga., a personal checking account costs $10 a month without a minimum balance, while a similar account at the locally owned Bank of Canton costs...
...best way of doing business, it doesn't matter where it comes from. All durable cultures must uphold honesty, otherwise a society will not survive. If dishonesty is admired, a society must break up. The easiest way to stop corruption is to have the minimum of opportunities for public officers to exercise discretion. So have open rules. One of the most difficult things to establish is a culture hostile to corruption. Once you accept that the policeman can stop you on the road for an alleged traffic violation and you must slip him $2 or $5 to settle...
Last spring, Harvard's Undergraduate Council distributed about $23,000 to 90 groups for the second semester, providing a maximum grant of $900 and a minimum...
...would think Law School students and staff would want to maintain a country club level of exclusivity. After all, what good is bourgeois excess without a restriction on who has access to it? At a minimum, I'd expect a few dirty looks from scholars of the law for defiling their (plentiful) research computers by checking my e-mail...
...Rather than saving up for a plane ticket to Grand Cayman, check out a new online bank opening its virtual doors this week. Sicherheit und Privat (Security and Privacy) is an Austrian bank that offers encrypted communications, digital cash transactions and a privacy-protected MasterCard for a minimum deposit of $1,000 (as opposed to $10K to $50K in a typical Swiss bank). Could be just the thing for low rollers trying to hide cash from a spouse's divorce lawyers...