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Knowles also notes that rises in tuition rates cannot continue to outstrip inflation indefinitely. We are grateful that the tuition increase last year was the lowest in decades, but even a five percent increase can be a burden for struggling families. We beg the Faculty to do anything in its power to reduce skyrocketing tuition rates while keeping the budget in balance...
Such eye-catching assertions, which beg the disputable question of whether the Egyptians actually were black, are being promoted by radical Afrocentrists in college classrooms across the U.S. today. The principal goal is to free the teaching of world history from its traditional Euro-focus. A secondary aim is to give minority students pride in the achievements of their ancestors. Up to a point these are unexceptionable goals, concedes Mary Lefkowitz, a professor of humanities at Wellesley. But in a fierce little polemic called Not Out of Africa (BasicBooks; 222 pages; $24), she argues that the Afrocentrists substitute pseudo history...
...saying that a "total slaughter" would sweep Chechnya if the Russians left, which is surprising since Grozny was razed, and casualties mounted only after the Russian army invaded. Although Yeltsin realizes how low he has sunk in pre-election polls, his press secretary, Sergei Medvedev, says Yeltsin refuses to "beg" Jokar Dudayev for peace, which means talks are not on the horizon. TIME'S Yuri Zarakhovich reports: "This war is destroying Russia. People aren't being paid. The Army is hungry. It's no coincidence that Russia is asking the IMF for 9 billion dollars, which is 30 trillion roubles...
...satisfied the American Association of Retired Persons by staving off a proposal to raise co-payments and deductibles for people who stayed in the traditional fee-for-service plan. When White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta finally convened a meeting of health lobbyists at the White House to beg them to mount a late offensive, one bluntly told him that his opportunity had passed: "We've been meeting with Gingrich every two days. They were the only game in town...
...wasn't for that damn Czech class you signed up for on Tuesday afternoon, you might have been privy to the winter beach in Sever Quad. How free it would have felt to don a houndstooth check bikini in winter and beg disgusted onlookers to rub sun tan lotion on your back. Oh, to be scum in Harvard Yard on a Tuesday afternoon...