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...Congress must do more to reduce interest rates and expand benefits for students and families in order to make college more affordable for all Americans,” Kennedy said. “In the meantime, I urge students to lock in today’s lower rates by consolidating their student loans before July...
...advance into civilized modernity. The world is getting tired of, and bogged down by, Africa's problems. Wake up, Africa, and smell the coffee! Benjamin Omovie Cardiff Quotas for Castes Re "Battle of the castes" [June 5]: The Indian government's decision to reserve 27% of university seats for lower-caste groups that are officially known as Other Backward Classes has raised some protests, giving the impression of a countrywide controversy. But the system is already prevalent in many states and is running successfully. It is like the homeopathic principle of treating similar with similar: substances that can cause symptoms...
...earth beyond the year's longest day. And in the Bering Strait, the hazy rose-colored summer-dawn breaking over the blue-white ice-floes crowding its waters revealed a curious tableau: framed by the dark distant, snow-crowned headlands to the east and west and, at a lower elevation, the two, flat- and sheer-sided Diomede Islands tucked between those mainland heights, rose a forest of masts, sails, and rigging. Closer inspection revealed a listing, three-masted whaleship. Moored to it by a web of radiating ropes bobbed five smaller vessels, the 35-foot whaleboats that, on better days...
...economy were becoming dominated by behemoths like John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, which marketed 84% of all the petroleum products in the U.S. As large companies gobbled up smaller ones, McKinley did nothing to spoil the feeding frenzy, though it often meant higher prices and lower wages. The Sherman Antitrust Act, passed in 1890, was a feeble weapon to begin with--the Supreme Court had restricted how it could be used--but McKinley didn't even take the trouble...
...wore black outfits with a Star of David on the sleeve and met in a pastel orange clubhouse--should defy any attempt at logic. But in cases from Toledo, Ohio, to Lodi, Calif., we do have a rough sketch of which Americans are getting nabbed. Mostly, they're young, lower-middle-class Muslims, Americans who flirt at some level with radicalism. They get caught when they try to get training, weapons or, as was apparently the case in Florida, when they reach out, however ham-handedly, to a larger network. "Anyone who forms their own little group and then tries...