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Keliher then used the gist of his comment on his own blog post as a letter to the Crimson today. Which elicited a comment from Wagley which was essentially a re-post of Keliher's original blog post. Things getting meta...
Keliher then used the gist of his comment on his own blog post as a letter to the Crimson today. Which elicited a comment from Wagley which was essentially a re-post of Keliher's original blog post. Things getting meta...
...Gist: The global recession has unseated its government and clobbered its economy - even McDonald's is jumping ship - but when it comes to gender equality, Iceland is the world's beacon. The tiny island nation tops the World Economic Forum's 2009 Gender Gap Index, the group's fourth annual assessment of global equality between the sexes. With more women elected to Parliament and advances in female economic and educational participation, Iceland leapfrogged its larger Nordic neighbors, edging Finland, Norway (last year's No. 1) and Sweden to lead an all-Scandinavian top four - an honor determined by measuring...
...Gist: As if African-American students' test scores and perceptions of the U.S. abroad weren't enough, we can add yet another item to the list of areas of life supposedly improved by the "Obama effect": press freedom. Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard credits the President with the U.S.'s jump from 36th place to 20th in this year's eighth annual world press freedom index. Atop the list, which is compiled based on questionnaires completed by hundreds of media experts and journalists worldwide, are a Scandinavian quartet - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - and Ireland...
...Gist: The College Board has released its annual report on the cost of higher education, and the news is distressingly predictable: despite the current economic downturn, college is getting more expensive. Tuition and fees for the 2009-10 school year at a private, four-year college or university now averages $26,273, a 4.4% increase from last year. Throw in room and board and you're up to $35,636. Public schools are a better deal, of course, but their price tag is growing even faster - up 6% or more. All this in a year where the cost of most...