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...Beaten Path (virtualtourist.com) TRIP TIPS Planning a hike to Sri Lanka's World's End? Make sure you leave early enough to catch a view from the 700-m cliffs plunging to the plains below. The clouds roll in just after dawn, obscuring any chance for a vista. This and other helpful tourist tips-and traps-can be found on this database of tales contributed by travelers from around the world...
...they chew things over, and they disagree - though Downing St. is exceedingly disciplined about not leaking details. Nevertheless, that Vice President Cheney finally waded into the Middle East peace process last week looks from London like a vindication of Blair's long-standing advice. Bush's 50% foreign aid hike over three years is also something Blair, who called in September for a fight against the poverty that breeds extremism, also backs. "The great thing about the United States is that it always does the right thing in the end," deadpans one Blair adviser. "It's too bad that...
...Greenspan hailed the recovery, the House passed a scaled-back economic package that amounts to a Republican retreat on broader tax cuts. The rebates were a one-time boost that won't be matched this year. In another policy negative, Bush's new steel tariffs--in effect, a tax hike--could spark higher prices and a trade war that would greatly damage global growth...
...wealthiest Harvard students, whose parents make substantial incomes, the tuition increase will pose no problems. Likewise, for the least wealthy Harvard students, increased financial aid will absorb the costs of the hike (even if it may leave them with a larger work-study requirement or greater post-college debt). But for the rest of Harvard’s students, whose parents make too much to see the costs absorbed by aid and too little for the costs to be an inconsequential expenditure, the tuition hike will be a real burden. Feeling the pinch of the recession, members of the middle...
...raising tuition equals but a few grains of sand. If every student paid the additional $1,681, it would bring an extra $10.7 million to FAS next year. But, given that some students on financial aid will not have to pay these costs, the real value of the tuition hike will be somewhat less. Still, even the over-estimated $10.7 million figure amounts to only .13 percent of FAS’s portion of the endowment; the waterline would barely budge if the Corporation paid out this money...