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...also has assets to its name acquired through its involvement with CrimsonReading.org, the price-comparison Web site co-founded by a former UC representative...
...survey underscored this point. Nationally, it showed Clinton being edged out by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, 45% to 43%, within the margin of error. In red states, however, she ran behind him, 49% to 40%, and she trailed, 47% to 41%, in the purple ones. By comparison, Illinois Senator Barack Obama beat Giuliani by a single percentage point (43% to 42%) nationally but held that same margin in the purple states and came within 6 points (45% to 39%) in the red ones...
...naming “preferred lenders,” we suggest that they eliminate “preferred lenders” altogether. University officials have proven that they cannot be trusted to act in the best interest of students; therefore, they should instead direct students to third-party loan comparison companies. It is in these companies’ interests to provide impartial comparison data, because they survive by offering quality information, rather than by offering loans directly. If universities pay for loan comparisons while still helping students to navigate the maze of paperwork required for loans, they can fulfill their...
...interested in playing around with one of the central frameworks of American history, which is the idea of sectional conflict, and the idea that slavery was a regional institution rather than a national one,” Hahn said. In what turned out to be a controversial comparison, Hahn likened the communities of African-Americans in the North during the nineteenth century to the Maroons in the West Indies, groups of fugitive slaves during the same time period. “The northern settlements and enclaves, like Maroons, shared a fundamental orientation to the world around them: they were under...
...heavy issues of death and the afterlife are made simple and casual. In “To my soul (2),” Valentine addresses her soul and simply ponders whether or not she will miss it in the next life. Beautifully ending the poem with a comparison of the relationship she once had with her soul to the ordinary but poetic—“coffee grains / brushed across paper . . .”—Valentine leaves the reader floating on her words.Death, the afterlife, and desperation may be dark and weighty issues, but in Valentine?...