Word: biddinger
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(2 of 2) When Deutsche Telekom, BT and France Telecom were bidding their borrowed billions on licenses last year, it looked like the loans would be a lot easier to pay off than they are today. "We have a plan that will bring our debt down into the range of...
The bidding war to sign Julie is good news for the Mulligans and other families of hard-working, high-scoring students. But many educators believe this competition poses a danger to the traditional, lower-income recipients of financial aid--and ultimately to some of the institutions themselves. Money awarded to...
Ironically, the most selective colleges, often those that can best afford to give money away, benefit from a kind of Chivas Regal effect, in which buyers are willing to pay for cachet. While Princeton and a few other top colleges continue to limit aid to those in need, their actions...
America's higher-education system, considered the most diversified on earth, is valued precisely because of its full menu of choices--from small Bible colleges to world-class universities. If the tuition wars spread further, that diversity will suffer. "In the short term," observes Dickinson's Massa, the merit-scholarship...
Forget about black monoliths. If the late great Stanley Kubrick had known what was going to be really cool by the year 2001, his seminal movie would have opened with 25 million ape-descendants clustered silently round an awe-inspiring and somewhat unreal auction house. Then to the tune of...