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...edict all but torpedoed upfront UC funding for student groups and for HoCos, which receive $4,500 per term from the UC’s coffers. This development was particularly problematic for HoCos because UC funds often go to small-scale events that promote house life in addition to larger events like House formals. After HoCo chairs and other concerned students cried foul, the administration began to backpedal. First, it told HoCos that the money would instead be handed over to House offices, which would oversee HoCo expenditures and hand over the money as needed. Then on Monday, the College...
...someone offered you $1,000 for getting a five on an Advanced Placement (AP) Exam, would you take it? We certainly would. And if you attend one of 25 low-performing high schools in New York City, now you can. This particular incentive is part of a larger program being implemented in New York City this year under the auspices of Roland Fryer, assistant professor of economics at Harvard. The idea behind the program is to “pay for performance” by monetarily rewarding students who do well on standardized tests. Despite concerns that the program undermines...
...much incentive for them to change a family system that provides them so many goodies, and typically they don't try to. Younger siblings see things differently and struggle early on to shake up the existing order. They clearly don't have size on their side, as their physically larger siblings keep them in line with what researchers call a high-power strategy. "If you're bigger than your siblings, you punch 'em," Sulloway says...
...design label Graey. Using couture techniques to make high-end T-shirts, her designs revolve around cleverly placed cut-outs into which a soft lace embroidery of thick-gauge is sown, creating a look that is not only marketable and sophisticated in its sexiness, but also unique in the larger scope of designer tees...
...Despite those threats, Bush ultimately never once vetoed a Republican spending bill even though the vast majority included funding levels far larger than he requested. "There is, of course, an irony about a President who let through all kinds of appropriations that were far above his proposals through, suddenly itching to use the budget veto,"said Clyde Wilcox, a government professor at Georgetown University...