Do yourself a favor-listen to your friendly financial services representative.

In the last few months, the Office of Financial Services has sent out various ultimatums via e-mail and snail mail to inform students of two very important deadlines.
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Columbia, work in progress

If every cloud has a silver lining, then every silver lining must have a cloud. Such is the case at Columbia.

First things first—the mansion. In the first issue of this school year’s Chronicle, the college released the estimates of what was spent to renovate the $1.35 million mansion the school bought for President Warrick L. Carter. The cost of purchasing and refurbishing the home was $3.7 million. Now, in the last issue of the Chronicle, a report has been released that says the board of trustees has voted to sell the home, just 17 months after Carter moved in.
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Keeping faith in Columbia’s future

There’s no doubt that some of Columbia’s actions this past year have been questionable to say the least.
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Good riddance to Fleischer

There will be little meat to be pulled from Ari Fleischer’s carcass. The sad, bespectacled man with a face like wet paper and a blighted pate that has acted as the voice box to a cancerous body has left little legacy in his wake. As Fleischer steps down from the bully pulpit filled by such poisonous, flea-bitten cur as former Nixon Press Secretary Ron Ziegler, he leaves little of note behind him, save his childish temper tantrums. He will be remembered chiefly for his excessive saber rattling; banging a dulled blade of rhetoric against the bars of the gilded cage this administration has constructed.
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Tommy wants to lose some weight

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson announced May 8 at the 2003 National Food Policy Conference here in Chicago that America needs to go on a diet. And for a little inspiration, Thompson himself lost a few pounds.
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