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...Higher Education Price Index—a gauge of inflation calculated by Commonfund, an investment firm in Wilton, Conn. that serves schools and other nonprofit organizations—has increased by an average annual rate of 3.4 percent over the past five years. The index measures movements in the prices of goods and services purchased by colleges and universities...
...Financial markets, at least, have not been rattled despite the worsening political atmospherics. The Dow Jones index, the most-watched barometer of the U.S. stock market, neared a six-year high last week, and the dollar has been firm, despite the massive trade deficit which, in theory at least, is eventually supposed to drive the greenback's value down. Moreover, at a moment when the U.S. needs China's help in the U.N. Security Council to bring Iran's nuclear program to heel, U.S. President George W. Bush is plainly eager to finesse the trade issue as best...
Huckabee, who is a possible 2008 presidential contender, has given state employees in Arkansas exercise breaks instead of smoking breaks. The state's public school children are screened for their body mass index, an indirect measure of body fat, and confidential reports are mailed to their parents. Huckabee wants to experiment with a system in which food stamps would be worth more if they were spent on healthy purchases like fruits and vegetables...
...issue of the storied Harvard Advocate came out early last week, sporting a fresh, leafy cover and a hell of revealing table of contents. The masthead is conveniently printed on the opposite page, and if you check the names through with your index finger, all but half a dozen contributors are members of The Advocate’s editorial board. Call it incestuous or call it harmless, but if nothing else, it’s just undeniably kind of awkward when the face of J. Enzo A. Camacho ’07, a member of the Art board, appears...
...from a few isolated websites into a tight, well-oiled forum for students to debate campus issues, keep track of the local news, and just jabber around. CampusTap is the conscription of the guerrillas—a private ring of Harvard student bloggers with a consistent form, a unified index of topics, and an easily-searchable directory of names. Even the Cambridge Common folks have moved their operation over to the new site. Thanks to CampusTap, no Harvard blogger is an island.A BLOGOSPHERE IS BORNHarvard’s blogging pioneers were students who maintained personal pages—online diaries...