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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
ADMINISTRATION Doc Bowen's New Patient...
This week's trick question: Name an affable, conservative former Governor with a reputation for cutting taxes. No, not Ronald Reagan, but Reagan's choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Otis ("Doc") Bowen. As two-term Governor of Indiana from 1973 to 1981, the diminutive (5 ft. 5 in.) Bowen, 67, maintained the gentle demeanor of a country doctor while running the state in the "less government is more" tradition, cutting taxes and leaving Indiana with some of the paltriest welfare benefits in the U.S. Reagan appointed him to replace HHS Secretary Margaret Heckler, who was pushed...
...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...