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Madama Butterfly, Puccini 21 Don Giovanni, Mozart 16 La Boheme, Puccini 15 Rigoletto, Verdi 12 Aida, Verdi 11 La Traviata, Verdi 11 Carmen, Bizet 9 Cosi Fan Tutte, Mozart 9 Die Fledermaus, Strauss 9 Die Zauberflote, Mozart...
...junk-tossing and young crowd stranger than one would find at the Rocky Horror Picture Show; a countdown to the end of the millennium-cum-doomsday-inspired Y2K electrical blackout; and the three members of Guster--bedecked in black tie---descending to the stage in special chairs while Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" whipped the crowd into a frenzy...
...allowing some people to pay by plastic would have deleterious effects on the entire student population, Strauss says. Because credit card companies charge a nominal percentage fee on every purchase, Harvard would lose a small portion of each student's tuition paid by credit, thereby forcing the College to impose a flat fee across the entire undergraduate population to recoup the losses...
...Strauss says that although many of the people who want to pay by credit card are willing to absorb the fee associated with their own charges, government banking regulations prohibit the selective assessment of such fees...
...those students and parents who need more flexibility in paying Harvard's admittedly large tuition bills, Strauss says the College offers a monthly, interest-free payment plan that she says can be considered a significantly cheaper stand-in for a credit card...