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...just undeniable that a lot of students who in the past would have applied to 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...
...object of all this historic attention was the dominant member of the constellation Canis Major--Sirius, the brightest[*]star in the night sky and one of the closest to earth (less than nine light-years away). There is just one problem: as any modern stargazer can testify, Sirius is not red but white. How could the ancients have been so wrong...
Young, brash and full of unabashedly liberal ideas, Toney Anaya was considered one of the Democratic Party's brightest lights in 1982 after he won the Governor's seat by a landslide in conservative New Mexico. Anaya, now 44, immediately presented the legislature with sweeping plans for educational innovations, prison reform and economic development geared to high-tech industries. As the nation's only Hispanic Governor, he spoke out frequently on minority issues, and was known to entertain dreams of someday winning a Cabinet position, perhaps even the vice presidency. "My political options in New Mexico are limited," said Anaya...
...ticket. "He is magnificent." Yuri, a young soldier on his way to Afghanistan, exclaimed reverently, "I will carry the memory of this afternoon with me always." Reviewing the program of Scarlatti, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Schubert, Liszt and Chopin, Critic Dmitri Bashkirov wrote in Sovietskaya Rossiya, "He indisputably remained the brightest bearer of the Russian performing tradition. I think there was not one person in the hall who didn't leave the concert in a happy, elevated mood." After watching on TV back in the U.S., Violinist Isaac Stern reached Horowitz by phone to say he had had tears...
...article on the West Point class of '05 prompted praise of the cadets' patriotism and bravery. Some readers, however, were critical of America's sacrificing of its brightest young leaders to the war in Iraq...