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There may be other options. Kal Chany, who wrote Paying for College Without Going Broke, notes that some schools, like Boston University, specifically offer merit grants for students with little financial need, and some are more sensitive to the issues of recently blended families...
...denizens legal title to their homes and businesses. That would grant them access to bank credit and investment capital, much as the property-title revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries enriched Western Europe and North America. A limited experiment in Peru in the 1990s proved the idea had merit when it brought in more than $1 billion in new tax revenue. Some 30 heads of state, from Egypt to Mexico, have hired de Soto for similar projects. "I think our time has come," says de Soto. "Four billion people exist outside the market, where angry folks like Osama...
Although he admitted that those three theories may be true, he questioned their merit in explaining the universal, widespread popularity of religion...
...students graduate after four years with patchy knowledge in their fields. Cutting back on the number of credits required in one’s concentration would only further reduce that knowledge, they will say. Yet the damaging effects of cutting down on tutorials can be minimized by increasing the merit of the tutorials which remain. The history department, for example, eliminated one of its two junior tutorials this year, a class which, in spite of the spin put on it by the senior professors in charge, was nothing more than banal busywork dressed up as vital grounding in the science...
...university would often be just as logical in giving an honorary degree to the wizard with a sawed-off shotgun as it is in bestowing its academic laurels on a merchant prince. That public opinion is a shallow wench whose favors are as easily won with gold as with merit is a platitude which American universities have too often failed to appreciate...