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Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, is campaigning for everyone to have the right to freeze credit reports so that the bureaus can't provide your information to anyone without your O.K. Thirteen states have passed freeze laws (although in some states the option is available only to ID-theft victims), and 23 others are considering freeze legislation. Federal measures to protect financial data will be discussed this week by Congress...
...percent from the floor for the game. Adding to the Crimson’s problems offensively were turnovers. Harvard coughed up the ball twenty times during the game, and made just fourteen field goals. In the first half, the squad had nearly twice as many turnovers as field goals, thirteen to seven. The Big Red led 37-22 at halftime and ended any thought the Crimson may have had at coming back, scoring the first six points after the break and taking a 21-point lead. The margin slowly grew, sometimes dipping below 20, and eventually reached its high point...
...from the floor for the game. Adding to the Crimson’s problems offensively were turnovers. Harvard turned the ball over twenty times on the game, and made just fourteen field goals. In the first half, the squad had nearly twice as many turnovers as field goals, thirteen to seven. The Big Red led 37-22 at halftime and ended any thought the Crimson may have had at coming back by scoring the first six points of the second half to take a 21-point lead, 43-22. The margin would slowly grow, sometimes dipping below 20, but eventually...
...administration for gutting the agency and criticized the rise of political appointments at agencies such as FEMA. “Our country has never seen a response that failed so bad,” Witt said of the government’s reaction to Hurricane Katrina. “Thirteen hundred people did not have to lose their lives.” Witt also called for carefully orchestrated urban planning in the reconstruction of New Orleans and a commitment to rebuild the wetlands of the Mississippi delta. Approximately fifty people, primarily faculty and graduate students, attended the symposium. Panelist Frederic...
...hours before the most important race of his career, U.S. speed skater Chad Hedrick was a calamity. Thirteen years ago to this very day, his grandmother, Geraldine Hedrick-"my buddy"-died of brain cancer. The combination of grief, cabin fever- he arrived in Torino twelve days before the Games ("rolling around in bed takes it toll on you")-and the pressure of his first Olympic race drove Hedrick to tears. And into the stands, where friends and family tried to calm his down. "I kind of felt like a sissy," says Hedrick...