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...would let students take nine courses in a year for the price of eight—three each term, with condensed courses providing a more concentrated academic experience without the frivolous projects. Competition from peer institutions and a shorter school year overall would hollow any excuses for a tuition hike. Although Stanford schedules its fall exams just before winter break, its very late start subjects it to the same criticisms encountered at Harvard: Students planning internships or work in the summer are stuck with a late return home, when it’s almost June and the jobs are taken...
...regret to see yet another spending hike for the Pentagon in Bush’s latest budget. With this 7 percent rise, which doesn’t include any supplemental money for Iraq or Afghanistan, military spending in 2005 will surpass the largest defense budgets of the Cold War. And, regrettably, it will almost certainly pass because of a Republican chokehold on the House of Representatives and Senate Democrats’ insecurities about seeming weak on defense. If it has to pass, let’s use the new money wisely—by siphoning it into higher salaries...
Proponents of the fare hike claim that Boston’s subways and buses are still the cheapest in the country, but inhabitants of poor and poorly serviced neighborhoods can testify that paying separately for rides on a bus and a subway for the same trip is hardly a bargain. And the MBTA’s disregard for low-income users goes far beyond its fares. On the Orange Line, which serves many low-income neighborhoods, subways have been known to run once every half-hour. The Silver Line has turned out to be an ersatz subway route covered mostly...
...until after 2006 is far too weak a concession. The MBTA should make a more durable commitment to the community of riders by keeping fares low, steering improvement efforts toward the neighborhoods that truly need them and allowing an independent audit of its accounts. As it stands, the fare hike remains a suggestion of a regressive transportation policy in which those who can afford a car are valued above those who ride the buses and subways...
...Foam Truths An Italian court ruled a bar illegally used the arrival of the euro to hike the price of its cappuccino, the first time authorities have punished artificial rises since the euro's 2002 birth...