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Many grandparents--immigrants or residents of far-off places--could not have afforded Harvard. The problem was exacerbated by prejudice; for example, the number of scholarships awarded to Jewish immigrants was curtailed...
...devastating blow when the stock market crashed last October. But, defying expectations, the economy is still running and even blowing off enough steam to inspire fears that it may actually be overheating. Forget about a recession, many economists counsel, and start worrying about inflation. Once a faint and far-off danger, rising prices may now pose the gravest threat to economic stability...
...secessionist uprising has begun to stir in the Torres Strait Islands, a balmy archipelago off Australia's remote northern coast. Charging neglect by the government in far-off Canberra, the 5,000 mostly Melanesian islanders are demanding self-rule, along with $3.5 billion in federal compensation. Their main gripe is that Australian-based fisheries are exploiting the waters surrounding the 15 islands, which include those whimsically named Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday...
Pipes hit what has become a fact of life: the transformation of the Core course into a multimedia extravaganza. After watching the far-off song and dance of Harvard's hottest star professors, the bright lights and big names have all blurred the Core into some intellectual imitation of MTV--with the depth and sincerity to match...
Think of it as an animated cartoon. Imagine the corporation as a sheepfold, its shepherds stupefied by years of prosperity and innocent of the ways of wickedness in far-off Wall Street. Now imagine a pack of wolves peering over the fence and judging that the assets gamboling behind it are tantalizingly undervalued by the marketplace...