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Participating in the pilot program would have cost students $110 for a Slingbox and $55 each month for service, which could have been split among friends and roommates. Some students already use Slingboxes to tap into their home cable service, but individual boxes are more costly than those under Castine’s proposal...
...Princeton as part of the team. Including these student members in HPPC, to serve alongside faculty, House masters, administrators, and planners from the Allston Development Group1, is a positive step towards ensuring that student recommendations are given proper weight. Since the 15-year reconstruction process—estimated to cost $1 billion—will be the largest of such renovations to date, it only seems fit that such permanent changes reflect the concerns of the buildings’ inhabitants. Additionally, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds e-mailed a comprehensive survey to students last week, requesting their input...
...Cutting arts funding is a symbolic measure more than it is a practical one. As Frank Rich ’71 said in The New York Times, “Bashing the NEA, like boosting school prayer, is a high-profile, low-cost way for the Gingrich G.O.P. to distract the faithful while avoiding the hard choices about cutting multibillion-dollar entitlements that might really downsize the budget.” The NEA got cut off at the knees because it was easier—and much more popular—for House Speaker Newt Gingrich to blame Robert Mapplethorpe...
...Obama seeks not only to maintain restrictions on the domestic oil supply but also to impose a windfall profits tax on oil companies in order to provide a $1,000 rebate to families for purchasing gasoline. Under this corporate tax, the cost of production for domestic oil companies would increase. Companies would then decrease production, reducing supply, and increasing prices to consumers to an extent that offsets the rebate. Corporate oil taxes have been implemented–and have failed–before. Under the Carter administration, this type of tax proved to be inefficient, meaning that families might...
...thinking of the Arlington Group, a coalition of movement conservatives - Mulliner angrily rejected the comparison: "You have no reason to be curious about this. You're going to write a piece that's going to start a fire that needs to get put out, and it's going to cost a lot of money to put it out," he said...