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...such tuition breaks know they will likely lose students to those that do. But don't expect state schools to start rushing in. Even public universities that have large endowments have yet to embrace no-loan programs. Take the University of California system, whose $6.4 billion endowment was the 12th biggest in the nation last year. The UC schools already educate more poor kids than their Ivy League counterparts, both in terms of absolute numbers and as a proportion of their student bodies. Even at the system's flagship schools, UCLA and Berkeley, more than a third of students live...
Volpe unveiled a nationally representative survey the IOP conducted between July 28th and August 12th of this year. Of 1,031 individuals between 18 and 24 years old, 55% supported Democratic presumptive nominee Obama in this year’s presidential election, while only 32% supported Republican presumptive nominee John McCain...
Whoever wins the August 12th primary will face little opposition in the general election. "The chances of a Republican winning in this district are zero," says Bob Loevy, a professor of political science at Colorado College. Loevy and other experts say the race remains close enough that any of the three Democratic candidates could win, though Fitz-Gerald may have an organizing advantage, given her two decades in state politics, and Shafroth is considered an underdog in the campaign's waning days. "The deciding factor will be whether $5 million is enough to swing the district," says Loevy. He says...
...least to Cairo Station, where he portrays them as comic relief: when they see dancers gyrating to rock n roll, the clerics mutter, "God protect us!" and "All these new-fangled ideas lead to Hell!" But Chahine was also a nationalist. His 1963 bio-pic Saladin, about the 12th-century sultan of Egypt and Syria, found a clear connection between Saladin's uniting of North African and Mideast Arabs against the Christian Crusaders and Nasser's formation of the Egypt-Syria United Arab Republic to fight Israel. (Saladin was played by Ahmed Mazhar, who had attended the Cairo Military Academy...
...annual human-development report sizing up nations' progress in ensuring their citizens' health, education and standard of living. In The Measure of America, social-science researchers used the same standards to put the U.S. under the microscope and came up with some striking results. While the U.S. ranks 12th globally for human development, many Americans are being left behind...