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...that they want here. The menu says NO TIPPING in large letters near the bottom, which will make stingy college students breath a sigh of relief, but then the fine print underneath says that there is a surcharge of 18 percent! Even if your party is less than six people! Sneaky, indeed...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble | Title: The First Word on the Faculty Club | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...announced yesterday. The deal with the Harvard University Employees Credit Union will allow eligible Harvard graduate students to borrow a maximum of $250,000 for their education without a co-signer—a safety net required by many lenders. Discussions with HUECU have been ongoing for the past six weeks, and the recently completed contract will take effect on April 23 for the next three years. The arrangement—which marks the first time that HUECU will be offering student loans—follows a similar deal penned in February with JPMorgan Chase and will increase the funding...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: HUECU To Offer Student Loans | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...bottom of the seventh inning with a shot over the center-field fence, giving her team the 7-6 walkoff win at Shea Field in Chestnut Hill.“We’re excited we found our offense today—we hadn’t scored six runs in a long time,” co-captain Bailey Vertovez said. “We had that game. One runaway inning for our defense…[we] need to help our pitcher on the mound and we would have won that game.”In the early going...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Offensive Surge Can’t Bring Win | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...which started bottling Kentucky bourbon and is now one of the world's biggest liquor conglomerates. "The owners' mission is to make art accessible," says William Morrow, the museum's curator. "It's amazing how many audiences there are for a project like this." Temporary exhibits change about every six months; now running (through June) is Constant World, an installation by Brooklyn-based artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, which combines sculpture, electronics and video for a culturally savvy discourse on the thin line between utopia and dystopia. Of course, you could ignore all that and just go up to your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louisville's Art of Hospitality | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...caught refuse to rat out their higher-ups. "They prefer to take the [jail] sentence than tell us the truth," says Liu. He also admitted that fear often paralyzes further investigation. In one case, a Colombian woman was caught at the airport with some $140,000 and sentenced to six years in prison. Liu says that after the trial last year, the woman's lawyer advised Liu not to investigate any further. Liu followed the advice, and says the people the woman was working for "could kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Guatemala, a Village that Cocaine Built | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

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