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...consider myself some kind of hero or a candidate for sainthood. I simply do my duty and my obligation. It's not much of a surprise for me to read about parents who ask doctors to cripple and maim their child for the sole purpose of somewhat lightening the burden that this unfortunate little girl represents to them. What really disturbed me is the acquiescence shown by those doctors who consented to commit what in my eyes is a horrific and heinous crime-of course, not before enlisting an ethics specialist who gave them the go-ahead. Arturo Camillacci Osaka...
...second nature to him. Although the Congressional Black Caucus, still strongly influenced by the civil rights generation, remains surprisingly liberal on immigration issues, the black middle class appears to harbor a hardening anti-immigrant sentiment--a Pew poll last year found that 54% of blacks see immigrants as a burden. More disturbing, however, is what that sentiment reveals about a growing pattern of self-segregation among the black middle class, many of whom, like the residents of Prince George's County, Md., seem to have largely given up on school and social integration...
...consider myself some kind of hero or a candidate for sainthood. I simply do my duty and my obligation. It's not much of a surprise for me to read about parents who ask doctors to cripple and maim their child for the sole purpose of somewhat lightening the "burden" that this unfortunate little girl represents to them. What really disturbed me is the acquiescence shown by those "doctors" who consented to commit what in my eyes is a horrific and heinous crime - of course, not before enlisting an "ethics" specialist who gave them the go-ahead. Arturo Camillacci Osaka...
Financial aid is a good thing, but it is not a panacea. There is a large, and too often ignored, middle class that does not qualify for major financial aid, but still balks at the high price of a private college education. The burden of the five–to-ten percent tuition increase that has become an almost annual tradition in higher education falls most heavily on these families...
...Times, several factors—including alumni donations, the 20 percent return of endowment investments, and the decision by trustees to spend more of the endowment—enabled Princeton to implement this freeze. Certainly, Princeton is to be commended for using surplus financial resources to ameliorate the massive burden high tuition rates impose on students and their families, especially those from middle- and low-income households. But we believe that extra available dollars at universities are better spent on financial aid than across-the-board tuition freezes. Princeton is following in the footsteps of Williams College, which froze tuition...