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...retirement, are on uncertain ground as well. The global crisis and the stimulatory monetary and fiscal policies that were brought to bear against it have overturned all the verities about long-term investing. Exiting from those policies is not likely to reinstate them. How will equities, bonds, commodities, oil, gold, currencies and other investment vehicles fare in the post-crisis, post-stimulus-spending world? (See how Americans are spending...
...called humor magazine. Her artwork has also been featured in the Harvard Advocate and last year’s “Students Choose” exhibition in the Sert Gallery of the Carpenter Center.The student-curated SOCH Penthouse Gallery exhibition features a variety of mediums, including oil paintings, acrylics, ink drawings and film. Each of these art forms serves to convey the common themes of Escobedo’s examination of her family relationships and her exploration of death through the use of abstract shapes and symbols. The acrylic painting “Leda and the Swan...
...playing game. Real people develop characters and, under the direction of the Game Master(s), enact an adventure. They fight to save a princess from a tower; they defend their kingdom from the ogres; or, in a more modern plotline, they seek out the robots who have blocked the oil pipeline to their village...
Castro believes that Chávez's oil-fueled Bolivarian revolution (named for 19th century South American independence hero Simón Bolívar) discriminates against the middle class. When he recently applied for a mortgage to buy a new house in a safer neighborhood, he says he was offered an exorbitant interest rate, set largely by the government, because of his economic status. "I came out with the impression that they give priority to the lower strata," he says. It's admirable to boost the poor, who before Chávez were largely ignored by Venezuela...
Josh gave me lots of detailed advice on coupon-positioning and expiration-date-hiding, but as soon as I got to CVS, I was overwhelmed by all the math and rules and price signs that screamed, Wow! Guiding me by phone, Josh let me buy some fish-oil pills that were 2 for 1. But the woman at the register mistakenly rang me up for both bottles of pills, and then I had to wait 10 minutes while a health-care-bill amount of paperwork was filled out. Ten minutes may not sound bad for $7, but it takes just...