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...University of California, too, is bulging with private-school refugees. At Berkeley ($11,160 out-of-state), another Moll favorite, some 40% of the students are minorities, many of whom could have met the entry standards of Ivy League schools. Says California President David Gardner about his university system: "It's just undeniable that a lot of students who in the past would have applied to private universities are applying here because of the [cost] differential between a public and private school." If that trend continues, even the finest of the Ivys may begin to see the best...
...trendy trail from coast to coast. "With affluence, your palate becomes very important to you," observes Jonathan Waxman, the chef who brought California cooking to New York in his popular though wildly expensive restaurant, Jams. Chefs sought by such traveling gastronomes are likely to include Alice Waters (Chez Panisse, Berkeley), Paul Prudhomme (K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen, New Orleans), Larry Forgione (An American Place and the new Morgans Bar, New York), Richard Irving (the Ivy, Los Angeles) and Jeremiah Tower (Stars, San Francisco, and Santa Fe Bar & Grill, Berkeley...
...Indeed, Berkeley says locating undergraduates along the river would be more palatable because there would be a buffer between the Houses and the Allston neighborhood...
...We’ve been advocating for a long time to remove parking on North Harvard Street,” says Paul Berkeley, the president of the Allston Civic Association, who says that suburban commuters park there and walk to Harvard Square to take the T downtown, leaving few spaces for Allston residents themselves...
...Larry Summers is not a closet conservative,” says University of California-Berkeley economist J. Bradford DeLong ’82, who served alongside Summers both on the Harvard faculty and at the Treasury Department...