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Nicaraguan historian and former Sandinista leader Dora María Téllez declined a visiting professorship this spring at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) after the U.S. State Department denied her a visa for her alleged role in “terrorist activities...
...Staff imagines a day when all Harvard students can wake up and sign on to CSFB Webmail, have a few Purdue broccoli chickens, head to Sever Hall (presented by Visa) for a lecture with The Halliburton Professor of Literature, crash the MTV pub in Loker Commons, and then end the day at an Undergraduate Council meeting where Bylaw 62.35, sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor, is invoked. Is this day that far off at our current pace...
Americans spent more than $1 trillion on Visa credit, debit and prepaid cards in 2004, a 19% jump over the year before. Visa USA CEO Carl Pascarella sat down with TIME's Barbara Kiviat to talk about the continued march to plastic...
PASCARELLA: Everyday expense is growing markedly. That's the grocery store, the movie theater, gas stations. Quick-service restaurants--a $142 billion business, of which the card industry has got about 9%--is growing at 67% a year [for Visa]. We've had significant growth in prepaid cards, and the payroll card is very important...
PASCARELLA: There's $19 trillion spent by consumers and businesses on cash and checks. That's ripe for the picking by Visa or any other card. Our banks are going to test some things with American Express and Discover, but if we have the right value proposition, we're going...