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Fitzsimmons, Summers, Associate Vice President for Higher Education Policy Clayton Spencer and Financial Aid Director Sally Donahue spent about two years formulating the new aid initiative. Fitzsimmons and Summers also conducted about 20 comprehensive studies on admissions and financial...
...waterproof TVs and music systems, but more than gadgets, says Sallick, the biggest luxury in bathrooms is an expression of personal style. Nothing is as restful as the knowledge that the room in which you are all alone is all your own work. --REPORTED BY CLAYTON NEUMAN...
Another kind of buyer is financier Warren Buffett, who has planted a cornerstone in the market. Last year Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, spent about $1.7 billion to acquire Clayton Homes, a manufactured-housing company in Tennessee that had sales of $1.2 billion in 2003. This year Clayton, in turn, spent $373 million to acquire Oakwood Homes, which offers a mix of modular and more traditionally manufactured homes. The lower end of the prefab industry is recovering after a wave of defaults resulting from overzealous lending. With interest rates climbing, more customers may now opt for relatively inexpensive manufactured homes...
...movies. It wants to make movies Christians think are Christian. Moviemakers are happy to be the money changers in the temple, even as preachers are thrilled that a discussion of--what, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle?--can guarantee a full house on Sunday. --Reported by Lina Lofaro and Clayton Neuman/New York City and Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
...DIED. CLAYTON KIRKPATRICK, 89, pioneering editor of the Chicago Tribune; in Glen Ellyn, Ill. When he took over the paper in 1969, Kirkpatrick wrote in an editorial, "No political party should take the Tribune for granted." Under his 10-year reign, the Tribune dropped its partisan Republican stance and became an objective, nationally respected publication...