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...millions of dollars—to a single company. The bribery involved in this subjective designation led to the firing of an Education Department official and three senior financial aid officers at different universities last April. The four had owned—and made enormous profits from??shares of Education Lending Group, a preferred student lender for their respective employers. The new Education Department regulations will ameliorate this anticompetitive state of affairs, but only to an extent. Among other things, regulations will prevent these educational oligopolies by imposing a minimum of three “preferred lenders?...
...damaging misconceptions about Islam as a religion, misconceptions that are already widespread throughout the American government and the public. To deny that Islamic terrorists pose a threat to the West would be shortsighted and wrong. Fundamentalism and religious extremism—regardless of the specific faith that they spring from??have the potential to be oppressive and harmful. Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, however, does not only condemn Islamic fundamentalists, it also launches an attack on Islam itself by conflating those who pervert Islam to excuse unspeakable acts of violence with the faith on the whole. TAP?...
...charitable deduction system also leads to the problem of under-donation to charities that actually serve the poor that Reich and others have identified. Research has shown that wealthy people are four times more likely to donate to education or the arts—causes that they benefit from??than low-income donors, who are more likely to give to causes that aid the less fortunate. Organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are the exception, not the rule in high-level giving. By subsidizing donations by the wealthy, the federal tax system magnifies this effect...
...were people in the crowd who had just gone through a horrendous break-up, or bombed the LSAT, or lost a pet, and Darnielle probably touched them in the exact same way. That’s where the real power behind his depressing verses and sing-along choruses comes from??they get the demons out. Darnielle constantly scans the crowd, making eye contact with everyone, allowing his own joy to spill out over everyone. The show consisted mostly of cuts off his 2005 LP “The Sunset Tree,” as well as some standard...
...freshmen Kelley Peeler and Roxanne Pinto. “We got overwhelmed,” senior captain Lauren Snyder said. “But we kept fighting for the whole game and we never gave up.” The opportunity to play against—and learn from??such talented teams as the Hawks will benefit the young Crimson squad in the future. “You get a chance to find out what you are made of,” Farrar said. “Every time we play them, we learn something about ourselves...