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...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 and the brightest doing their sums and making new calculations about where they go. --By Ezra Bowen. Reported by Andrew Blauvelt/San Francisco and Timothy Loughran/Boston Most expensive Total cost Bennington $17,210 M.I.T. $17,030 Barnard $16,842 Princeton $16,790 Yale $16,650 Moll's best buys Total cost[*] U. of N. Carolina $7,470 Miami U. (Ohio) $8,635 U. of Virginia...
...National Education Association certified as the nation's lowest (her wages have now soared to $6,800). "The feeling of being needed," she says, "that's something worthwhile. Many of my former students are married now, but we're still close. They still call me 'Teacher.'" --By Ezra Bowen. Reported by Robert C. Wurmstedt/Hanging Woman
...diagnosed himself accurately as "almost a corpse." It is miraculous that he had the wit and energy to remember, much less to create. Welch's world is barely larger than a sickroom, but its travel books intrigued some famous tourists, including Edith Sitwell and W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bowen and E.M. Forster, who praised the author's "sensitiveness, visual and tactile." The style-struck critic Cyril Connolly described Welch's prose as ripening "like an October pear that measures every hour of sunshine against the inevitable frost...
Health and Human Services Secretary Otis Bowen insists that Medicare beneficiaries "continue to receive the best-quality care available." While HHS has received 4,700 complaints about Medicare abuse related to DRGs, he says, there is no evidence of "any systematic increase in premature discharges." Nonetheless, Bowen last month announced that upon admission to a hospital, Medicare patients will soon receive a statement explaining their rights, including the right to appeal a discharge decision...
...easygoing former family practitioner is expected to be more of a team player than Heckler, whose clashes with White House insiders, mainly Chief of Staff Donald Regan, led to her downfall. Bowen served as chairman of the Advisory Council on Social Security, which helped rescue the foundering system in 1984. He promised last week to perform his new job "with as much efficiency and compassion as I can." Expect him also to attempt to hold the line on the gargantuan ($327.8 billion) HHS budget. ARMED FORCES Dollar Wars Over Star Wars...