(WP) In a rare reversal, Bank of America announced today that it will drop a highly criticized fee for customers who swipe their debit cards. The bank had intended to begin charging the $5 fee next year, citing new federal regulations that it says have hurt its bottom line. But the debit charge drew a torrent of fury from customers, lawmakers, and even Pres. Obama. Faced with consumer backlash, Wells Fargo recently abandoned its own testing of a fee. Regions Bank and SunTrust have also dropped their charges. More
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- Lose-Lose: 1,400 stormtroopers evict Occupy LA
- Burma: Hillary storms home of "1984" (video)
- "Shame" - gang rape for honor (trailer)
- Bhikkhu Bodhi supports Occupy Wall Street
- YaCy: Ya See? We don't need Google
- The Buddha's "Second Coming" (Maitreya)
- Celestial Time and Math
- Husband Honorer: A Devoted Wife
- "Tizzy" the Traveling Priestess (video)
- Pepper spray inventor speaks out (video)
- Buddhism plays role in China's battle
- India to host a new int'l Buddhist body
- Stonehenge secret revealed
- Shocking truth about crackdown on Occupy
- Herman "Koch" Cain caught cheating (video)
- Win-Win: Occupy LA survives Police State
- UCLA: Protesting UC Regents' Meeting
- Peace as a Buddhist ideal
- Moviemaker Michael Moore on "Occupy"
- (Occupy) Tahrir Square: Egypt votes
- A very un-Buddhist Xmas (video)
- Prison guard rapes prisoners (audio)
- Mayor, Police threaten to evict Occupy LA
- Another brick in the Mayan Calendar mystery
- Craving, Craving, Craving
- Black Friday: "Brandwashing" (video)
- Woman pepper sprays Wal-Mart (video)
- "How to Start a Revolution" (video)
- Practice Radical Forgiveness, here's how
- An All-American Thanksgiving (cartoon)
- Occupy LA responds to the City of LA
- Occupy Los Angeles GA's Declaration (video)
- Innovative Occupy LA deal may still be in play
- The Buddha under the Sea (photos)
- Comedian George Carlin on Occupy (video)
- LA rescinds Office and Farm offer to Occupy
- In the Secret City (audio)
- The Buddhas as Wonders of Bamiyan
- Searching for the Buddha's maternal home
- Eye of NEWT...and tongue of dog (video)
- HELP WANTED: Bring own housing (video)
- L.A. offers Occupy office, farm (video)
- "Super Committee" FAILS (cartoons)
- Some Buddhist groups thriving during crisis
- Cyberbullying hurts more than school
- Controlling protesters with new tear gas (video)
- Counterfeit "Viagra" is poison (video)
- Revolution begins within: Yoga at OLA (video)
- Fine Art, Peace Officers, and Pepper Spray
- The original new "Israel" is in old Japan
- Girls Like Us: Girls for Sale: "Very Young Girls"
- Dalai Lama questions self-immolation
- Tibetan nun sets herself on fire (video)
- Buddhist Nuns versus Invading Military
- Occupy Tahrir Square attacked (video)
- Love-Hewitt suffering lovelessness
- UC Davis Chancellor's humiliating walk (video)
- Suffering: the Problem of Existence
- Magic in the Mountains: Elves' Faire
- Israel-mania and Islamophobia (comedy)
- Occupy LA-Wisdom Quarterly activities
- UC Police State (the pepper spray video)
- Memo: Banks should undermine Occupy
- My Path to Freedom (sutra)
- Hope or dread in Burma? Visit from Clinton
- How much does Facebook know about you?
- Friday Night - The Dharma Test Kitchen
- OMG! A "Twilight" sequel! (cartoon)
- Lesson is Simple; Student is Complicated
- Suu Kyi to decide Burma's political future
- Living for Outcomes and the "Yoga Sutras"
- Occupy UCLA: Take down those filthy tents!
- UNHATE; message from the Dalai Lama
- Occupy LA Calendar Actions (video)
- Police dismantle Berkeley's Occupy Cal tents
- Tantric Buddha in Eurasia (Padmasambhava)
- Occupy Samsara: Letter from Buddhist...
- Obama not assassinated but man charged
- Sex with animals tied to penile cancer in men
- "Leela" the meditation video game
- It's too hard to read a book, even "1984" (video)
- Mario Savio Speech: Prof. Reich (video)
- Sex study: Light on the Bedroom and Beyond
- A Buddhist Revolution in Orwell's world (video)
- The Power of an Idea whose Time has Come
- Occupy Colleges: Berkeley or Penn State
- Buddhist monks vow to protest
- DAY 60: Occupy Wall Street (video)
- Occupy Wall Street destroyed by police
- "Police are not my friends" (video)
- Earth beautiful in spite of police states (video)
- Teen Sex? "Not Under My Roof" (book)
- UC Berkeley plans massive rally 11-15-11
- What police are capable of (graphic video)
- Oakland re-attacked by Police (video)
- Gardening: "Homegrown Revolution" (video)
- Beating the Drum for War on IRAN (cartoon)
- Protesters push back after closures (video)
- Occupy Portland in standoff with riot police
- Zen and the Art of Occupying
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