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Despite Harvard's boast that it provides for 100 percent of estimated financial need, Harvard's estimates often differ wildly from the estimates of a student facing a four-year bill in excess of $80,000, especially when accepting a financial aid package can mean saddling one's self with a student-loan debt of more than...
...Opinions differ on whether Si's tense style of management is necessary. While it is true that the divisions run by his brother have prospered under a low-key leadership, newspapers and cable franchises tend to be de facto monopolies, while magazines and books must battle for attention in an increasingly crowded market and thus must be aggressive to survive. In any case, it is hard to quarrel with the results. As the family fortune has soared, the magazine and book divisions have contributed their share. Random House, bought for $70 million in 1980, went on a spree of acquisition...
...felt enormous respect for him, since reinforced by publication of his epic work The Gulag Archipelago. Real life is never simple, however, and our relations are now difficult -- perhaps unavoidably so, since we are not at all alike and differ markedly on questions of principle...
Solzhenitsyn and I differ most sharply over the defense of civil rights -- freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom to choose one's country of residence, the openness of society. I have no doubt whatsoever as to the value of defending specific individuals. He assigns only a secondary importance to human rights and fears that concentration on them may divert attention from more important matters...
...superstition, the night before Piano Lesson started rehearsals at the Yale Repertory Theater in 1987, he began drafting his next play, Two Trains Running. A candid, joyous evocation of black street life circa 1968, it is just finishing its debut run at Yale. The episodic structure and comedic tone differ radically from Piano Lesson and Fences. The main thing the newest play has in common with them is that it too is terrific...