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...board charges have roughly doubled. We don’t believe today’s students are getting an education twice as good. Despite recently increased financial aid for students whose families make $60,000 per year or less, most Harvard students are still placed under an unreasonable financial burden. Meanwhile, members of the Class of 1969 completed college without significant debts, and felt free to follow paths (teaching, Peace Corps, the arts) not dictated by financial pressures. Today’s students often leave graduate schools with debts in excess of $100,000, accumulated from undergraduate and graduate tuition...
...grants that, unlike loans, don’t need to be repaid. The grants are administered according to a formula that takes into account variables meant to determine a student’s family’s discretionary income. Under the new guidelines families appear to have less tax burden, and therefore “more” income. This new formula will prove extra painful for the many students who receive financial aid packages from their state or university that are based on the federal aid model. Thanks to a nasty “ripple effect...
...hole in the center of this mythic history is Farrell, who looks overwhelmed and diminished by the burden of carrying an epic movie on his bulked-up shoulders. Jolie, however, is right at home as his mother. A sorceress lolling among snakes--the sexiest Gorgon, whose stare melts the screen--she spits out seductive invectives in a crypto-Carpathian accent; Olympias may be Philip's wife, but she is Dracula's daughter. And Jolie inhabits her with an awful grandeur. The archetypal housewife furious at her husband's philandering, she tells Philip, "In my womb I carried my avenger." Jolie...
...directors is becoming shallow," warns Digby Jones, director general of the British employers' group the CBI. For European firms listed in the U.S., compliance with America's Sarbanes-Oxley Act - the 2002 law that introduced tough new rules on how public firms report their numbers - is adding to the burden of compliance. Jones claims at least a quarter of his 72 British members listed in the U.S. have said privately: "We've had enough" of strict U.S. rules. Meanwhile, the Financial Times reported that a majority of Germany's 13 U.S.-listed firms wanted out of the hassle and cost...
...likely to carry the bulk of the Iraq security burden for the foreseeable future. Iraq's nascent security forces show little ability to stand alone against the insurgency any time soon, never mind create the basis of a national army capable of defending the country's borders against foreign attack. And the elections scheduled for January 30 are unlikely to end the insurgency. If the projected Sunni boycott transpires and Shiite religious parties, as expected, dominate at the polls, the conflict may even widen and deepen following the election. The ability of the U.S. to achieve its goals in Iraq...