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"Grotesquerie" is an odd word to use here, because it's in conflict with much of the reportage that follows. Consider some of the places Theroux visits, and people he meets. In Bangalore, India, he comes across two guys, Vidiadhar and Vincent, who had managed one of the earliest call...
Senator Charles E. Grassley—a leading critic of low spending from colleges and university endowments—proposed stricter disclosure requirements in federal tax filings for schools on Monday, suggesting a willingness to stop short of threatened legislation on the issue. “I would like to...
There was a moment on Tuesday night when the Republican Convention looked like it just might slide right off the rails. The President had been banished from his own party. The running mate was caught in a media frenzy. And a Democrat was extolling the Republican nominee for a series...
A new and more radical approach is being taken by groups like the newly formed Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C), which plans to finance research designed to deliver big leaps and home runs rather than the incremental improvements that are more typical of mainstream science. The new focus for funding...
But experts caution that families shouldn't expect to see most financial-aid packages rise to the level of Harvard's largesse anytime soon. Over the past few years, Congress has gotten fed up with wealthy schools hoarding their enormous endowments - Harvard's reached $35 billion last year - while still...