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...have the status of C.L.U. (chartered life underwriter) or C.P.A. (certified public accountant), but Anthes and his fellow faculty members hope to change that by funneling more people through 18 to 24 months of courses at a tuition of $850. About 50% of the college's graduates belong to the Institute of Certified Financial Planners, which in January will begin setting education standards for its members. The Atlanta-based International Association of Financial Planners claims 8,200 members. As of now, there are no licensing requirements anywhere in the U.S., and almost anyone with a pocket calculator can call...
...your story on the fight to save Crested Butte [June 29], readers may have missed the point that the "backyard" we are trying to spare and the molybdenum under the ground both belong to all Americans. Multinationals like Amax, under the existing laws, would take that resource and in return would leave the people of the U.S. with one more ecological time bomb to cope with...
...considering private school for the first time, often because of dissatisfaction with public school. In the past decade the student-age population has diminished, bringing with it an 11% decline in public school enrollment. But at the same time the number of students in the 880 schools that belong to the National Association of Independent Schools has increased by 23%-to roughly...
...Nine-tenths of my vocabulary I have never heard spoken," he writes. Unsurprisingly, Abbott is ingenuous about a worldwide Marxist revolution and hysterically partisan about "pigs" (guards). Yet his letters belong with the best prison literature, not because of their accounts of atrocity, but for their disturbing picture of daily life behind bars...
...Brooks pushed the denim saga one more chapter, he might have come up with Thorstein Veblen jeans, preferably worn with a vicuna sweatshirt at a Rodeo Drive block party to benefit striking grape pickers. Such scenes belong to theatrical rather than routine life, though today the distinction is often blurred. Star-struck by the endless celebrity parade, a growing number of ordinary people stage self-dramatizations in public places. But are the pseudo John Travolta, roller-discoing among the pedestrians, and the orthodontist attending the U.S. Open dressed like Bjorn Borg intentionally ironic or deadly serious...