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...Mother Harvard tries to push her doctoral candidates out of the nest, fledgling scholars in the graduate school enjoy the resources of Dudley House, a long-awaited student center...
...even as he was honored, some of Walton's roots were wondering about just what he had wrought. Writer Tim Larimer grew up in Salem, Ill. (pop. 7,800), which ended up in the middle of a Wal-Mart nest. On visits home he watched the storefronts go dark one by one, places where he had met and laughed with friends as a kid. One Saturday afternoon he counted four empty stores on one side of the business block and two on the other. Two cars were parked downtown. The Wal-Mart on the west edge of Salem was humming...
Spend Today and Retire Tomorrow may sound like a reckless attitude toward the future, but it could be a painless way to set something aside for the golden years. Launched last week in surburban Washington, START lets people have their nest egg and spend it too. To enter the plan, a consumer pays a one-time enrollment fee of $25. Whenever a member buys something from a participating % company, 1% of the purchase price is put into escrow. Once the escrow balance reaches $100, members can open up a START Plus annuity account. Each account receives a 1% contribution...
...this era of multimillion-dollar salaries and endorsement deals, it is still not uncommon to find the poorly invested player who leaves the game with little more than he had when he came in. Either he's in serious financial straits or he just wants to father his nest a bit more...
...vocal band of conservatives, including a growing number of election-year critics on Capitol Hill, public TV is something else again: a government-feathered nest of subversive, indecent and politically biased programming. The increasingly intense assaults are turning public-television funding into a controversy that could become hotter than the one that recently engulfed the National Endowment for the Arts...