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...Today approximately one-quarter of the school's 780 students are city residents, with the rest spread across the inner and outer suburbs. The school allocated $1.4 million in financial aid this year to students who could not afford the $9,990 tuition. "We will not turn away any student who is qualified to come here," says U of D principal Gary Marando...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesuit Message Drives Detroit's Last Catholic School | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

Luckily, Wilson still had some of that Forstmann Little cash lying around. He called an old Citadel hand, the fortunately named Bob Proffitt, and found a local private-equity firm, Endeavour Capital, that was willing to back Wilson's new venture, Alpha Broadcasting. It paid $11 million for Paul Allen's Portland stations--Allen bought them for about $50 million. Experts say the price premium for radio stations has fallen from 20 times earnings to eight times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rescuing Radio | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

Wilson isn't finished buying. His Alpha Broadcasting hopes to buy another station in Portland, and when revenues hit $10 million, he'll go after another city in the West. It all sounds like the actions of a confident man, but perhaps Alpha's logo is telling. It's a picture of his rescue dog Bear. "It looks like he's cocky and winking at you," says Wilson. "But really he just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rescuing Radio | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...have gangster government when the Federal Government has set up a new cartel," Bachmann announced on the floor of the House on June 9, referring to the government takeover of General Motors. A video of that speech attracted more than 2 million YouTube views. A few months later, from the same podium, she wondered if health reform would allow a 13-year-old girl to use a school "sex clinic" to get a referral for an abortion and "go home on the school bus that night." It wouldn't, but the terrifying suggestion buzzed around the Internet. The White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to the Fun House | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

Twenty-three college presidents in America make more than $1 million each year. Harvard’s Drew G. Faust, fifty-sixth overall, is not one of them...

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Faust's Salary A Surprise | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

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