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Scott does almost all her collecting these days on an auction site called eBay. A sort of digital swap meet, the service allows users to sell and bid for antiques and junk of all kinds--old milk bottles, vintage postcards--even U.S. Grant memorabilia. "I've tripled my collection in two years," says Scott, who has amassed nearly 8,000 items, including a $4,500 signed letter and a $20 embossed pillowcase...
...could be rehabilitated. There is a dim hope, still, that they will get it. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is slowly pursuing an old case against Hurwitz, having to do with a savings and loan collapse. A settlement of $250 million from Hurwitz was spoken of. So was a swap: debt for nature, maybe involving Pacific Lumber land...
Those days are largely gone. The council today is a body in transition. Today's council is one on which Kamil E. Redmond '00 and I, bitter enemies during last year's campaign, now swap war stories over pizza. Today's council has much less to do with politics and much more to do with serving students. It is, I hope, a better council, a council that the students of this school asked for in the past election. But it is a council which needs a fresh wave of new blood. It needs students who stayed away in the past...
...paired donation was made in honor of Finn M. W. Caspersen, a graduate of both Peddie and HLS who is the outgoing CEO of Beneficial Corporation, which was acquired in an April stock swap by Household. Caspersen declined a position with Household, the largest consumer-finance and credit-card company in the country, and will instead follow a "second career" in charity work, according to a Law School statement...
This isn't the dicey game of timing it may seem. For example, you can guard against missing a quick recovery by buying another depressed stock in the same industry. Sell Halliburton, down 41%, to lock in the tax benefits; then buy rival Schlumberger, down about 30%. Likewise, swap Philip Morris for RJR, AMR for Northwest, Caterpillar for Deere...