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...STUDENTS RECEIVING SOME KIND OF FINANCIAL AID [Public] 45% [Private] 52% Sources: Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac; National Center for Education Statistics; American Association of University Professors...
Sources: Washington Post, USA Today, Fortune, Washington Times, Des Moines Register, Almanac of American Politics, Federal Election Commission
THERE'S NO PRICE TO BE FOUND ON THE COVER OF McSweeney's a Farmers' Almanac-style compendium of smarty-pants wit and media industry critique. In its place, "If words are to be used as design elements then let designers write them." David Eggers, the 20-something founder and publisher of "McSweeney's" introduces his latest creation in a telling mixture of anachronism and irony: "People, people stop blaming yourselves! Have you forgotten: Timothy McSweeney's Blues/Jazz Odyssey? (For short say 'McSweeney' s') Known also as: `Pollyanna's Bootless Errand. Now fix your collar--Today could be your...
...years there, that I had learned certain invaluable things, but also that I had learned in two years that I had been away certain things that Harvard wouldn't have been able to teach." As that statement implies, this founding member of intertraditional folk groups the Weavers and the Almanac Singers doesn't have many regrets about the past. "I've always been too busy to think about coming back," he admits. Except, of course, to receive the Arts Medal...
...that's no surprise in a district which, according to the Almanac of American Politics, gave Ronald Reagan his lowest vote percentages in the country...