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...TYPICAL HARVARD STUDENT, who is already scraping the bottom of the barrel to plunk down $15,000 for a Harvard education this year, is increasingly finding occasion to fork over another $2,000 while he's at it. The personal computer bug has now officially bitten Harvard and while they aren't saying as much openly, the implicit message from Harvard officials is clear...
...TYPICAL HARVARD STUDENT, who is already scraping the bottom of the barrel to plunk down $15,000 for a Harvard education this year, is increasingly finding occasion to fork over another $2,000 while he's at it. The personal computer bug has now officially bitten Harvard and while they aren't saying as much openly, the implicit message from Harvard officials is clear...
...critics are unimpressed. "Kitsch," some of them proclaim. The works, says Los Angeles Sculptor Richard Oginz, "strike a Norman Rockwell note." Indeed, Johnson is not about to knock Rodin off his pedestal, but his garden-variety American archetypes are a welcome-and welcoming-relief from "plunk art": find a plaza, acquire something made of huge welded beams, then plunk it down...
...COMMUNITIES around America work to shut down video game arcades, their elected representatives are playing and more with PAC-men. These PAC-men don't swallow quarters; they plunk bigger bucks into pockets of Washington politicians, a far more dangerous type of gaming that should be restricted immediately...
...factor not reflected in prices. Now that mortgage money is flowing again, there are fewer such "creative financings." The best news in this for sellers, and for the housing market in general, is that homeowners are now getting cash when they move, which makes it a lot easier to plunk down the downpayment on their next home...