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Price tags at New York's public colleges rose less than 1%, the lowest in the U.S. The state also gave the most need-based grant aid ($1,300 per student...
...DIED. Henry Fok Ying-tung, 83, low-key Hong Kong tycoon who was one of the Chinese leadership's most trusted advisers; in Beijing. During the Korean War, Fok defied a U.S. embargo and dispatched aid to China. In ensuing years, Beijing showered him with business contracts and official honors. Fok, an aide told reporters, was "a true patriot...
...state my allegiances at the start. I don't consider myself a liberal, or even a Democrat. But I'm on board the Barack Obama bandwagon. I'm drinking the Kool-Aid and going back for refills. As far as I'm concerned, Obama's declaration last Sunday that he's not not running for President was just about the most exciting development in American politics since the birth of the party system. Like many Americans, I want Obama to run in 2008. And though two years is an eternity, I fully expect that if he runs, he would...
...friend thinks it isn't right to engage in reverse-inculcation at home. "Then how are we any different from them?" she asks. "He should have the right to choose himself the values he wants." I agree: it's like sending your kid off Jonestown with the Kool-Aid folks, and hoping he'll emerge an independent spirit...
...Tuesday after an early flight from Amman, Jordan, over Iraq's barren western expanses as they caught the day's sunrise. After some visa haggling and a luggage wait upon landing, I was on the road into Baghdad, rolling along the same littered stretch where a friend of mine, aid worker Marla Ruzicka, lost her life to a suicide car bomber in April of 2005. It was a tense 20 minutes or so, but I would later realize the moment offered only a sample of the kind of anxiety whenever you drive around Baghdad...