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Harvard, with its deep pockets, was luckier than most other universities. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences was able to draw on its “unrestricted funds” to allocate $5 million for financial aid in 1982, and the aid offered to students was largely unaffected by the Reagan cuts...
...Agura Hotel in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, a place favored by foreign oil executives, you might take him for a security guard protecting his charges. But Pullo works for the other side. "We are not taking hostages because of money," he says. "We are taking hostages to draw world attention to our plight." Nigeria is the oil giant of Africa. It is also, as an American diplomat in the region says, "one big problem...
...stay at the Presidential Cottage at the Montgomery Marriott Prattville Hotel and Conference Center in Alabama entitles you to a personal butler, chef and heliport. You need only ring the chimes in one of the five suites in the 10,000-sq.-ft. cottage, and the butler will draw your bath or bring your favorite snack. "As long as it's legal and ethical, our butler will get you anything you want," says Walter Kennedy, the hotel's general manager...
...Elements of his plan are certain to draw opposition from the increasingly concentrated insurance industry. The most controversial would limit their profits in areas of the country where health insurance is provided by just a few carriers. "We'll investigate and prosecute the monopolization of the insurance industry," Obama said. "And where we do find places where insurance companies aren't competitive, we will make them pay a reasonable share of their profits on the patients they should be caring for in the first place." Strong words, but Obama may yet find out that, on that particular proposal...
...formula may need some fine-tuning, we hope that the final product retains the greater emphasis on skill. That’s not to say the bill is perfect. We do not believe that further emphasis on border security will be productive. The economic, social, and political forces that draw immigrants to the U.S. are tremendous. Securing the border with an eye toward illegal immigration will not remove the forced that draw these immigrants to choose to immigrate illegally, nor will it remove all means of doing so. A greater budget for border security thus amounts to throwing cash down...