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...going for and what they say they need to stay competitive. "This is an arms race," says Sandy Baum, a professor of economics at Skidmore College who conducts the Annual Survey of Colleges for the College Board. With state budgets and private donations slashed, schools are desperate to fill classrooms with tuition-paying students, particularly those who can afford full fare. Dorms are not only one of the few healthy sources of revenue, but also a major selling point. "It's a matter of survival for some institutions," says Tom Hier of Biddison Hier, a student-housing planning firm based...
...acting is full of satisfactions and surprises. Law has movie-star musk and the craft to fill his peasant garb with a heroic sensitivity. Kidman seems uncomfortable early on, but she takes strength from Ada's plight and grows steadily, literally luminous. Her sculptural pallor gives way to warm radiance in the firelight. Portman lends a tender ferocity to the widow aching for the presence--the memory, really--of a good man's body next to hers. As for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, voting is now officially closed; Zellweger should take it by acclamation...
...closed-distribution system, currently employed by Harvard and the University of Chicago, requires students to choose from an array of courses designed to fill core requirements. The open-distribution system, which allows students to choose departmental courses that satisfy broad area requirements, is used at Yale and Stanford. The other two options are the core class system, in which common courses would be required of all students, and the free choice model—which trusts that students, without any requirements at all, will work distribution into their course selections by their own free will...
...even so, some 39,000 asylum seekers have entered the country so far this year, according to the U.N. - a number that dwarfs the 15,360 jobs offered to non-E.U. computer experts since Germany launched its "green card" system in 2000 - a program designed to help companies fill vacant high-tech jobs with skilled labor from overseas. Countries are beginning to collaborate to regulate the flow. The Spanish and Moroccan governments announced last week that they would launch joint marine patrols to head off illegal immigration. The E.U. has begun negotiations with 11 countries to give them...
...Play: The READER asks each WRITER to call out a word—an adjective or a noun or an overused journalistic cliché or whatever the space calls for—and uses them to fill in the blank places in the story. The result is an FM Mad Libs game...