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...should be instituted at undergraduate institutions. Elite colleges with large endowments have already taken measures to address the problem of student debt by moving from student loans to student grants in 1998—an initiative led by Princeton. Consequently, Princeton and Harvard, as two of the few need-blind institutions, no longer have many students graduating with large debts. However, student loans are the only form of financial aid available for hundreds of other American colleges, where students continue to graduate with an exorbitant amount of debt. In fact, between 1997 and 2002, the average undergraduate debt rose from...
...Jews in so-called Greater Israel. Some of Israel's anxieties would vanish if Israelis reached peace with the Palestinians. But both groups are so bound up in their own sense of victimization--the Israelis over the Holocaust, the Palestinians over the loss of their land--that they are blind to the legitimate needs of the other. Palestinians speak of pushing the Israelis into the sea. Israelis speak of driving the Arabs into the desert sands. But the majority of sensible people on both sides know neither outcome is possible. Somehow they must agree to share the land and tolerate...
That's a far cry from the "My country, right or wrong" credo, which confuses blind boosterism with a more authentic, if sometimes questioning, loyalty. At their best, black folk offer critical patriotism, an exacting devotion that carries on a lover's quarrel with America while they shed blood in its defense...
This year’s concert—which took place on a warm, sunny afternoon—was significantly better-attended than last year’s, which featured Third Eye Blind in the rain. The College Events Board (CEB) estimated that 7,000 people were present for Wu-Tang and about 5,000 stayed for Gavin DeGraw. They said 1,500 to 2,000 people attended last year’s show...
...religious dynamic. There was neither rain nor rainbow for this papal pilgrimage, but after five days of sunshine, the air was raw Sunday and a heavy fog covered even the top floors of the much smaller buildings that surrounded the massive crater left by the 19 followers of a blind faith...