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...Class of 2005 can know for sure what the new rules will mean come June, but unavoidably, about 600 seniors who would have gotten honors last year will leave Harvard with only a diploma...
...Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's main campus, hemmed in by the city's shops, offices and apartments, Kezeng "Lily" Liao, 26, is hunkering down for study. Born in Shanghai, the marketing student with a diploma in the dark art of public relations arrived in Australia in 2001 to learn English. Liao has given up well-paid work as a guide for Chinese tourists visiting Victoria to concentrate on campus clubs and activities - and the subjects she hopes to complete to finish her degree by the end of 2006. "I think that adjusting back to life in China would...
With or without a diploma, not everyone getting married at Memorial Church uses their Ivy League intellect. Edington tells of a groom who decided to get his hair cut mere minutes before the start of the ceremony. But that’s not the all-time best wedding blooper. According to Edington, that honor belongs to “the bride who asked, just before the wedding began, whether the best man could stand in for the groom—because the groom ‘isn’t feeling well today.’ Answer: very, very...
...transition to adulthood gets tougher the lower you go on the economic and educational ladder. Sheldon Danziger, a public-policy professor at the University of Michigan, found that for male workers ages 25 to 29 with only a high school diploma, the average wage declined 11% from 1975 to 2002. "When I graduated from high school, my classmates who didn't want to go to college could go to the Goodyear plant and buy a house and support a wife and family," says Steve Hamilton of Cornell University's Youth and Work Program. "That doesn't happen anymore." Instead, high...
Republicans don’t like handouts. They prefer individual responsibility. Conservatives believe in an America where men and women get ahead through hard work and perseverance. So what if college grads earn 80 percent more than those with only a high school diploma? That’s their just reward. America is the land of opportunity. Those who fail to reap its bounty have no one to blame but themselves. They should quit whining and get back to work...