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Last year, the Harvard Eight returned the favor, pulling past the finish just half-a-second ahead of their Rhode Island rivals...
...Harvard band, which has been playing the local campus and club circuit, then beat Brandeis' Bachelors of Arts, Boston University's The Promise, and the University of Rhode Island's That'll Learn Ya, according to Wendy Wertz, spokesman for the competition...
...interest rates. Across the U.S., public officials and consumer groups are angry that credit-card charges have stayed high in recent years while other lending rates have sharply dropped. Two bills have been introduced in Congress that would establish national ceilings for credit-card interest. Six states -- Arkansas, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin -- already limit that interest...
Many colleges give academic credit for public service. Some, like Brown and Harvard, provide fellowships. Educators and politicians have proposed offering other tangible rewards to volunteers, many of whom are accumulating high tuition debts and feel pressure to earn wages. Rhode Island Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell will introduce a bill this month that would give ROTC- like tuition assistance to students doing community service. Thanks, say some, but no thanks. "Volunteerism should be selfless," explains M. Richard Rose, president of Rochester Institute of Technology. "Ideally you should be like the Lone Ranger. You do a good deed, then you leave...
Hundreds of Rhode Island consumers, including some Brown University students, have been duped by a company misrepresenting the stereo speakers it was selling, The Brown Daily Herald recently revealed after a three week investigation...