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...lawsuit distinct from the DOJ case, 4 million retailers have joined in a suit against the companies, charging undue market control. Visa and MasterCard have a lot to lose as these cases progress: At the moment, the companies are on the take at both ends, charging credit card customers sky-high interest rates and leveling a sizable usage charge against retailers. Of course, if the store owners decline to take credit cards, they stand to lose considerable business from a public that has come to expect everybody to accept plastic payment...
...spent the summer after sophomore year working at Let's Go and walked to work most days from Somerville. Emerging from Dexter gate, I felt like a man who has been wandering in a desert and has just spotted an oasis. The sun was usually high in the sky already, and I squinted as I crossed the street. The Iced Vietnamese is composed of iced coffee with sweet condensed milk. The sweet syrupy milk tends to settle at the bottom, but when swished around well, the effect is better than cream and sugar. It tastes like liquid Werther...
...moment, the sky is layered in horizontal stripes of deep blue, gray and orange. I sit where Jeanine said she most liked to sit--on a bench across the reflecting pool from the rows of chairs. Karen's is aligned with an American flag flapping against a high pole near the back wall. Jeanine can orient herself in relation to it. I take the same position. The pool is blacker this evening, the ripples tighter; they make the dark water look like the ridges of an old 78 phonograph record. A stiff breeze blows the flag against the pole...
...sky goes violet. Most of the other visitors have gone. The bases of the chairs rise slowly to a glow, like votive candles. They look more like a jury than they did in daylight. More questions presented by the chairs: What uses does one make of the past when it comes to the exercise of evil? How confident can one be when saying, "Never again"? Is it ever possible to relieve the terrible gaping absence that death creates...
...became a commodity/because I'm W-H-I-T-E/cause MTV was so friendly to me." Maybe someday we'll get to the colorblind place. Maybe some day Britney and Ricky and Eminem and DMX will sit around a campfire and their voices will drift up to the sky: "Kum ba yah, my Lord, Kum ba yah..." But for now, guys like Eminem have an advantage, and they're working it for all it's worth...