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...budget proposal includes an increase in property tax in order to make up for a $8.7 million reduction in state aid to Cambridge. The tax increase comes on the heels of a similar bump last year...

Author: By Danella H. Debel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 2010 Budget Drafted Despite Uncertainty | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...their concentrations to pre-med, hoping to avoid Wall Street,” said Christine W. Li ’10, president of the Harvard Premedical Society. Nimi P. Katragadda ’10, co-president of the Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business, said she has noticed a similar bump in enthusiasm for business school. Harvard Law School was ranked second in the nation, behind Yale, and the school of education was ranked sixth. U.S. News’ ranking methodology uses peer assessments, standardized test scores, acceptance rates, and other metrics to assess the schools. The magazine presents data from...

Author: By Ellie Reilly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Business School and Medical School Top Rankings | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...Revengers Comedies (1989) A man and woman meet on London's Albert Bridge and plot to "exchange" murders. She goes after his hated boss, then expects him to bump off her rival in love. This epic updating of Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train is hampered by its two-play length, but it is Ayckbourn at the very top of his game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayckbourn, M.I.A.: 10 Plays That Deserve Revivals | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...same period last year. At Iowa's Grinnell College, appeals for more funds have jumped as much as 50% compared to last spring, and the aid office at the University of Texas at Austin estimates that half the phone calls it receives these days are requests for an aid bump. Earlier this month, the Department of Education sent a letter reminding financial-aid administrators of their power to adjust federal aid awards using "professional judgment" and documentation, and encouraging them in this economy to consider students with special circumstances. "The ones who have been appealing right now have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Trying Times, Colleges Willing to Boost Financial-Aid | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...considering a plan to back new securitized commercial-property loans for five years, which could help enliven the market and create new opportunities for refinancing. But real estate executives are pressing for more direct government rewards to lenders, like an extra point on the refinancing or a bump in interest rates, to encourage them to continue loans as they mature. "Let's provide a way for [the banks] to roll over those loans, not just say that no one wants to refinance them," said Blaine Walker, a commercial real estate broker in Utah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Looming Crisis in Commercial Real Estate | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

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