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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full scholarship--$6000 a year is a little steep--and that means washing dishes in the Union as a part-time job, something which he says he would have once found "degrading." While expressing no anger at Americans, he notes evenly that "what people throw away in a meal here a whole Bengali family could survive on for a week." He says he feels bad that he doesn't really identify with his people and their traditions and that being in America has done this to him--he wants to learn, and regrets that he has been into the Bengali...

Author: By James I. Kaplan, | Title: Elite Students: A Silence Between Two Cultures | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...hardships have been worth it, the couples testify "We're closer knit and healthier than we would be in a city," says Moore. The food at the evening meal is usually from the family garden-they eat meat only about twice a month. Says Swenson "I wanted to be economically independent of the 40-hour week. I wanted out of the pollution and overcrowding. I found the wilderness aspect of northern Maine just what I was searching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans on the Move | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...chances of survival for a proposal to exempt college students from the 8 per cent meal tax appear almost non-existent, State Rep. Vincent J. Piro, the chairman of the Taxation Committee of the Massachussetts State Legislature, said yesterday...

Author: By Candy Kaller, | Title: Passage of Student Exemption On Meal Tax Seems Unlikely | 3/9/1976 | See Source »

...exemption is an amendment to a larger proposal to cut all meal taxes from 8 to 5 per cent. If passed, the amendment will eliminate the $95 surcharge which Harvard students will pay on pay on next year's term bills...

Author: By Candy Kaller, | Title: Passage of Student Exemption On Meal Tax Seems Unlikely | 3/9/1976 | See Source »

Piro said the committee might consider an amendment that would lower all meal taxes including those paid by students to 5 per cent. If this plan were implemented, students would only have to pay a surcharge of about...

Author: By Candy Kaller, | Title: Passage of Student Exemption On Meal Tax Seems Unlikely | 3/9/1976 | See Source »

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