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Even Sweden and Finland, long defenders of high taxes and socialism for the greater good, have decided to start charging non-European Union students tuition to study in their countries. "There is a huge debate in Sweden now about tuition fees," says Robin Moberg, vice chair of the Swedish National Union of Students. "On the one hand, the government has said foreign students shouldn't be supported by our taxes, but our argument has been that higher education is fundamentally a part of society...
...Scrooged, needed a talking to, Forsythe, even in corpse makeup, had the authority to do it. You might say he was upstaged by Joan Collins' brunette treachery in Dynasty, and by Farrah Fawcett's blond mop in Charlie's Angels. But Forsythe was like an easy chair one takes for granted until it's put in the attic. In three words, he wore well. (See the best movies of the decade...
...Next year is going to be a very tough year, maybe the toughest,” said Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum, who was forced to reduce a full-time staff position last year to part-time...
...Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures is currently reviewing the possibility of restructuring staff assistance, according to department chair Wilt Idema. While structural changes are not uncommon in FAS departments, the move was precipitated by financial constraints to “see how the staff may be used more rationally,” Idema said...
Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson said that last year’s cuts in staff hours have reduced faculty access to staff assistance, even as concentrator numbers have doubled in the last four years...