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More families are switching schools to save money on their children's tuition, according to a New York City--based firm that processes payments for nearly 2,000 private schools nationwide. Smart Tuition found that by the middle of the current school year, 7% of students had transferred--twice the number of students who left private schools...
...from people who are in financial peril--drowning in credit-card debt or facing adjustable-rate mortgages that threaten to bury them alive. Each week they phone in to Orman's CNBC show for advice or buy one of her nine books, which offer the hope that they might save themselves from the financial hell they've created. Orman rushed out a paperback response to the economic crisis called Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan, which is on the New York Times best-seller list, and the ratings for her TV show are among the highest at CNBC. She promotes...
...worse things get, the harder she is to avoid. Her style seems almost intentionally annoying: she screams on camera, her blue eyes practically bugging out of her head. But she has long been saying what America needs to hear, crusading against credit-card debt and urging people to save money and pay down their mortgages. Since the onset of the recession, she has made some subtle adjustments to her image, positioning herself more as a populist crisis manager than as a promoter of the American Dream. That hasn't shielded her from criticism for not foreseeing the deepest financial meltdown...
...bike-share should branch out from Boston proper—certainly into Cambridge, but also into the closest suburbs, such as Newton. The farther the program’s reach, the more minds it will change, and the more car trips it will save. It will also do wonders to relieve congestion on Boston’s infamously crowded crosstown arteries and non-square squares...
...RPI’s recent success is due in large part to goaltender Sonja van der Bliek. Over the course of the Engineers’ latest win streak, the sophomore hasn’t given up more than one goal in any game, recording a .967 save percentage to go with a miniscule 0.84 goals-against average...