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...quit her job. The girls just moved out. My daughter now tells me that while her roommate waited for a check that never arrived, they paid no rent. For nearly three months, they ignored notices from the landlord, who is demanding the rent plus penalties--several thousand dollars. Am I responsible for paying everything? I'm very upset with my daughter. I think she has no sense of what money is, and that's my fault. Should we bail her out this time...
This year a “Justice Blog” was created on the course website to allow students to voice their opinions on a message board that Brian P. Fiske ’07, a student in the course, compares to “one huge thousand-person section...
...Nevertheless, the service I went to, supposedly the busiest of the morning on a perfectly beautiful day, had no more than one hundred attendees. One hundred attendees in a space built for—and I’m sure previously well used by—well over a thousand. And of those hundred souls, no more than a handful were under the age of 30; I was among the two or three youngest in attendance. White hair, canes, and motorized scooters were the norm for these parishioners. There were, of course, no altar boys, and the priest went about...
...delve into the heart of the problem and rebuild for the newly homeless and the helpless, regardless of color, race or religion. I am glad I live in a safe place, but we know that disaster can strike anytime. Ariel Lee Singapore Katrina's damage was multiplied a thousand times by the breach of the levees. This is a classic case of the penny-wise, pound-foolish policies of modern politicians and bureaucrats. The problem is not limited to the U.S. Driven by concepts like cost cutting and lean government, shortsighted budget officials may save a few billion dollars...
...Matt and Andrew ate dinner with friends in Tribeca. Their plan was to leave New York and make a 45-degree angle into the Midwest. From there, they’d head west to Seattle, dip down the California coast into Texas, and snake east through the South. Fifteen thousand miles later, they’d end up back in New York. Their dinner companions were impressed, but wary. “They said, ‘Be careful, there’s crazy people out there,’” Andrew told me later...