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Time-shares allow buyers to lock in the cost of future vacations, which makes them appealing to budget-minded travelers, and they're a less expensive alternative to buying a second home. Las Vegas, Hawaii and Orlando, Fla., have seen the biggest buildup in inventory and are therefore the places most susceptible to discounting...
...Logging on to the Ivy Leagues" [April 27]: Granting degrees to students who qualify through online study is merely acknowledging the actualities of university study today--notes and exams are taken on computers. Grading and advice to students could easily be done via the Internet, and the cost per student would be reduced dramatically. The social-policy aim is the creation of educated individuals. The technology isn't important. John Leone, SAN DIEGO...
...Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt,” yesterday evening at the First Parish in Cambridge. Along with co-sponsors like the Harvard Book Store, the Lowell Institute, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Cambridge Forum hosted Stiles as part of their weekly forums on “cost.” “We are looking at the idea of cost, and obviously the financial world is important in cost. Vanderbilt is one of the architects of the American economy today,” said Patricia Suhrcke, the director of the Cambridge Forum. The Cambridge Forum?...
...losing their jobs, the MAC will remain closed during the summer, leaving students with two smaller, less centrally-located facilities: Hemenway Gymnasium near the Law School and the Murr Center, situated across the Charles River by the athletic fields. As part of the University’s sweeping cost-cutting measures, the initiative aims to slash expenses in the athletic department’s budget. But athletic administrators said the move would also cut back on the services that are usually provided by the MAC during the summer—such as an Olympic-sized pool and a host...
...cost of the week-long program, which its director calls “a huge success,” was the time that Resendes would have normally spent with his baseball teammates...