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...unease persists. One day, you pass a primary school where a bunch of 10-year-olds of all colors and shapes are having a physical education class in the autumn sunshine. Within the space of a few minutes you watch them encourage and console one another, succeed and fail, concentrate like demons and muck about amid noise and mirth. And you have to wonder, whatever the arguments to the contrary: Is this a snapshot of something - school life - that children could really be better off without...
...none touching upon the graduation problem. And certainly not for coaches like LSU’s John Brady, who immediately cashed in on his players’ Final Four run to publicly demand a higher salary. Apparently $715,000 per year is not enough. (Meanwhile, the students who fail to graduate can look forward to a median annual income...
...actually more affordable for many students than public colleges or universities.” Note the qualifier: “many.” Certainly, Harvard is more affordable for students whose other alternatives are paying out-of-state tuition for an elite public university. Where Harvard continues to fail, however, is in providing an acceptable level of financial aid to middle-income families. These families, which make between $110,000 and $200,000 a year, have been excluded entirely from HFAI’s windfalls. And they are many more numerous than less well-off families. Extrapolating from numbers...
...standard in the medical world today. Hospital administration is largely concerned with the question of "how can we get more (paying) patients through here?" Few of us are surprised, of course; the market for patients is competitive and payments are thin-hospitals and doctor's practices do fail quite often. The reason we just can't get comfortable with the idea of medicine as a business is this though: when a ship is going down, they don't "market" the life jackets...
...America opposed it; a popular campaign banner in the West Bank said “Israel and the U.S. say no to Hamas. What do you say?” External attempts to sabotage a Hamas government would give it an easy target to blame if it does indeed fail to improve Palestinians’ lives...