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...Apprenticeship of Freedom...
...Tocqueville is right: “There is nothing more prolific in marvels than the art of being free; but there is nothing harder than the apprenticeship of freedom.” In my apprenticeship, I have followed a candidate I believe in, met people I have been lucky to work with, and learned lessons I will not soon forget...
...Johnson-Sirleaf addressed a joint meeting of Congress and received 18 standing ovations, according to Hunt. Johnson-Sirleaf was among Forbes Magazine’s 100 most powerful women in the world in both 2006 and 2007. Also last year, President Bush awarded her the Medal of Freedom award, the highest civilian honor in the United States. She will deliver the main address at Dartmouth College’s commencement exercises on June 8. —Staff writer Alexandra Perloff-Giles can be reached at aperloff@fas.harvard.edu...
...annually—allows families in that bracket to save several thousand dollars in tuition payments per term. Other aspects of the initiative demonstrate a sensitivity to college life for students receiving financial aid: The elimination of ongoing loans gives debt-free students the freedom to pursue opportunities in less financially profitable sectors, and the decision to stop considering home equity in ability-to-pay calculations prevents families from being penalized for notoriously shaky housing prices. Although the Financial Aid Office must still iron out details regarding which families are eligible for the 10 percent policy (only those with assets...
This is an experiment, of course, but it tells us a lot about the power of niches and self-sorting. Countless students (and others) are exercising their freedom of choice, with the aid of new technologies, to replicate the Colorado experiment. On the Internet and on campus, they sort themselves into groups of like-minded types. People fence in, and fence out, both topics and points of view. In fact, the Internet is producing fascinating variations on the Colorado experiment every...