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...Willard Street resident reported that at 4 p.m., unknown persons stole an address book containing phone tickets, a passport and a VISA card from his bag while he was at the information kiosk in Harvard Square...
...FAFSA. Moreover, counting in those "aid" packages Knowles lauds are of course the unsubsidized loans, all 100 percent repayable (with interest). These loans are fully funded by the federal government and they are available to any student at any accredited institution. If outside loans really constitute aid, Mastercard and Visa are some of the biggest suppliers of student aid today...
Another controversy involved not how the Japanese think, but how we charge. VISA, a major sponsor of the Olympic Games, is coming to see that charge cards are not universal. In America, the magnetic strip is located on the back of the card; in Japan, that strip is located on the front. For this reason, there were only two machines in Nagano that previously accepted back-strip cards; VISA and the Japanese found themselves having to install new credit card processors that would accept foreign cards...
...trip fell apart "because everyone's passports failed them." Al-Mokarrab needed a visa, another roommate's passport had expired and her other roommate couldn't find her passport...
Golub's most ambitious plan so far remains only a gleam in his eye. He wants to transform the credit-card business by plugging U.S. banks into the American Express network and thereby enabling the lenders to issue Amex credit cards. That's the last thing Visa and MasterCard want to see happen, and they've stymied Golub with bylaws that prevent their U.S. bank partners from offering other cards. Golub may get some help from the Justice Department, which is reportedly investigating the competitive behavior of the two big credit-card associations...