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...editors: Your recent article on college textbook prices (“Book Costs Send Students Online,” news, Sept. 25) failed to provide an accurate view of textbook costs and options. While it is important for students to comparison shop when purchasing textbooks, publishers are also doing their part to reduce part of the costs of higher education. Today, publishers are offering a variety of options for textbooks and instructional tools at a wide range of prices. Some of these cost-saving innovations by publishers include online texts and e-books, one- or two-color editions, and abbreviated...
...heat for going soft on the President in Bush At War, but the author's critics were wrong to suggest he was politically motivated. That book, remember, chronicled the President and his inner circle during the first three months after 9/11. All things considered, and certainly by comparison to what followed, those were pretty good days for this Administration...
...weren’t enough, David Bowie performs a guest benediction on “Province.”Digital, mechanical, and organic elements are combined to make a sound that is dark without being hopeless, propulsive without being stupid. It may sound hyperbolic, but the closest point of comparison is Radiohead’s “OK Computer.” Both albums use technology as a backdrop for an album about desolation, although TV on the Radio are more viscerally appealing, less nerdy, have better voices, and, at least at this point, are far more interesting...
...having some impact,” said Allison, who—like Professor Carter—was as an assistant defense secretary under Clinton. The Israeli ambassador to the U.S. criticized the council Friday for its “terrible mistake” of hosting Ahmadinejad, drawing a comparison between the invitation to the Iranian chief and a hypothetical invite to Hitler in the 1930s. But the president of the Harvard Islamic Society, Ali A. Zaidi ’08, said that “regardless of the nation, it is always to the advantage of the United States...
Yale’s $18.0 billion endowment still pales in comparison to Harvard’s $29.2 billion treasure chest. And both universities easily outpaced the S&P 500 stock index, which increased by 8.6 percent during the 2006 fiscal year. But Yale’s remarkable 22.9 percent return rate—and Harvard’s comparatively-modest 16.7 percent mark—suggest that Yale’s “external management” approach to its endowment is paying dividends...