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Faced with the choice of delaying college or attending cheaper and less prestigious schools, or missing out altogether, some families engage in a crash course in creative accounting and moral reasoning -- and by mastering the former, fail miserably in the latter. An industry of financial advisers is developing to help steer parents through the aid process, which often means cutting some ethical corners. Some companies charge parents fat fees to "guarantee" funding, often by showing families how to shift assets and hold down reportable income so that they qualify for more...
Acontingent of Eliot House residents betrayed their pampered past and aristocratic heritage last week when they "went kind of berserk" (according to one protest organizer) and threw a tantrum over the removal of paper items in their dining hall. Like latter day courtiers in 17th century France, the Eliotees banged demi-tasses of dining services-grade coffee and demanded their paraffin...
...Department study, with deciding whether "to treat Iraq as a distasteful dictatorship to be shunned where possible, or to recognize Iraq's present and potential power in the region and accord it relatively high priority . . . ((with)) steady relations concentrating on trade." Bush eventually, and not without justification, chose the latter course. On Oct. 2, 1989, he signed National Security Directive 26, setting out the ways in which closer ties with Iraq were to be achieved, including "nonlethal forms of military assistance...
...latter incident continues to rub because the sacred liturgy of any religion is an inappropriate venue for political protest. But the Holy Father, after all, is Karol Wojtyla, a person, who like other people. must answer for his actions...
Selections were taken from the Bhagavad Gita, the Greek New Testament, works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and New England's First Fruits. The latter is the earliest account of the work of Harvard College students and faculty...