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Every spring, exchanges like this occur among the deans of 23 top private colleges. The idea is to avoid bidding wars for students accepted by more than one college, and to ensure that institutions are similarly interpreting financial information submitted by parents. But the Justice Department has decided to look into this practice, as well as into the fact that within groupings -- the Ivy League schools and the Seven Sisters, for example -- yearly tuitions tend to be similar. Presumably Justice wants to determine whether there is any violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which prohibits restraint of trade...
...International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, are taking a tough stand on what has become an emotional and high-stakes labor issue: medical benefits. In an era of rising health-care costs, companies are trying to shift more of the burden to employees. Workers, on the other hand, look upon their medical benefits as hard-won rights that have become essential to maintaining their standard of living. Declared picket signs last week: CUTTING OUR HEALTH BENEFITS IS SICK...
...right may look like he's only feeding a giraffe, but he's actually lunching with a source. Acacia branches in hand, Los Angeles correspondent James Willwerth befriended Kito for this week's Living story on the renaissance of the American zoo. Over the course of eight weeks Willwerth petted a walrus in Tacoma, walked ankle deep in freezing snow in the company of several hundred penguins in San Diego and held (gingerly) a tarantula in Cincinnati...
Joel Brinkley's debut spy novel, The Circus Master's Mission, combines all of these things--one person's speculation, hindsight and journalistic footwork--to come up with a fascinating look at just how out of hand our government could...
Friedman's ability to draw the reader into his world is epitomized by his description of a stone-throwing attack by a Palestinian on his family's car. You feel the rock hit the windshield, you see the determined, unemotional look on the stone-thrower's face and you understand the reactions of the scared wife and two young children facing a shattered windshield...