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Dreifus describes how the group operated: "It was...a small group that did everything themselves. They rented out two rooms at the Coop...They arranged to borrow the works of art, they hung them up, they were even the security guards during the exhibitions--they would sit there with their homework on their laps. It was entirely student...
Russians may beg, borrow or steal foreign artifacts and ideas, but the vast majority of them would never want to live abroad. Those who do emigrate often suffer from chronic homesickness. Though keenly embarrassed by their economic and social backwardness, they believe passionately in the inherent superiority of their own soulfulness when compared with the arid materialism of the West. Ivan Goncharov's classic 19th century novel, Oblomov, presents the ethnic German Stolz as a model of energy and industry, but it is the dreamy Russian Oblomov who handily wins the competition of cultures. It may take Oblomov most...
...borrow megabucks from Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey and Eddie Murphy to produce the movie, is doing whatever he can to promote his epic. Furthermore, I doubt that Malcolm X, who educated himself by reading hundreds of books during his years in prison, would want children to skip school to see the movie...
There is also ample evidence that Americans are ready, even eager, to hear some of the hard truths that inform a yearning for change. It was a year, to borrow a phrase E.B. White used to describe a contentious New England town meeting, "when democracy sat up and looked around." Part of Ross Perot's appeal was his rapid-fire, flip-chart manner of laying out the bad news that Bush and Clinton did not want to discuss...
...problem is the law of unintended consequences; if it is easier to get a loan, colleges may feel free to raise their tuitions even higher. Wealthy parents will be able to borrow at bargain rates. Poorer parents, meanwhile, may be tempted to borrow more than they ever expect to repay; the default rate on government-backed loans is roughly 22% and bound to rise. As for outright federal grants, many more families will be eligible. But Congress has not set aside enough money to cover everyone and so is cutting the maximum grant amount. Neither the states nor the colleges...