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RAND’s Voluntary Support of Education survey annually tracks contributions to higher education and private K-12 schools. More than half of the four-year institutions in the U.S. participated, according to the press release...
...Crimson’s five seniors—tri-captain Nicole Corriero, tri-captain Kat Sweet, Ashley Banfield, Ali Crum, and Sarah Holbrook—started and ended the game on the ice together, and bookended a storied four-year run with Harvard hockey...
...when he was around 34, he killed a man with a sword, in a fight over a wager placed on a tennis match. Badly wounded, facing a murder charge and a sentence of death, he fled Rome, the scene of his early triumphs as a painter. After a four-year struggle to return, he died, possibly of typhus, on a Tuscan beach. Although the papal pardon he sought for years was finally granted, he did not live to learn the news. All through that complicated exile, while circling among Naples, Malta and Sicily, Caravaggio managed to sustain and even deepen...
...Both sides can still fight to keep abortion legal or illegal. But both can also work hard to reduce the moral and human toll of abortion itself. Why shouldn't a future Democratic candidate commit to an actual goal of reducing abortions nationally by, say, one-fifth in a four-year term? Alas, the pro-life side is leery. A key part of their coalition is made up of conservative Catholics who oppose any kind of birth-control devices; others are hostile to any adoption rights for gay couples. Still others may fear that if the number of abortions drops...
There has always been a game of one-downsmanship among modern memoirists as to who has the weirdest, most dysfunctional, most damaging parents. Granted, Kathryn Har- rison more or less ran the table with 1997's The Kiss, which describes her four-year affair with her father, and Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes) and Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors) aren't far behind. But there's spirited competition for fourth place. Two new memoirs, Michael Rips' The Face of a Naked Lady (Houghton Mifflin; 192 pages) and Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle (Scribner; 288 pages), are worthy contenders...