In the course of this reincarnation story, Beard manages to have his wife's research-student lover slip on a polar-bear rug, hit his head and die.

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Ms. Jones, who works for a company that manages corporate-benefits plans, said she fell behind on her student loans after she found she couldn't afford to go back to Northeastern and her loan payments started kicking in.

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Similarly, preliminary evaluations of the Edison Project, a private firm which manages 12 local schools, demonstrate that students have made significant academic gains on student achievement tests in three of the four Edison schools that opened in 1995.

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