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...cost of educating a student at Harvard is only partially offset by the tuition it receives, even from those students who do not qualify for financial aid. In fact, student tuition and fees constituted less than 33 percent of the revenue Harvard received in 1988. The remaining 66 percent came from interest earned on the endowment (17.2%), private gifts (19.7%) and government and institutional grants (30.9%). As income from these sources has decreased as a percentage of total revenue over the past few years, Harvard has had to look to other places to pick up the slack. Moreover, the University...
Granted, as officials in the University's financial aid office are quick to point out, the immediate effects of the tuition hike will be offset by increases in grants to students. Unfortunately, however, the effects of a 6.5 percent tuition hike are not quite so easy to gauge. A student from a modest-to low-income background may very well be irrevocably dissuaded from applying to Harvard by the news of another large tuition hike...
...love songs, the group seems to have gotten a little sappier and a little more conventional on Oranges and Lemons. "The Mayor of Simpleton'"s lyric silliness ("I can't have been there when brains were handed 'round or get past the cover of your books profound") is somewhat offset by Partridge's fast-paced vocals, but with its bouncy rhythms and annoying chimes, it's still more of a junior high dance song than the XTC we know and love. Ironically, although "Mayor" proclaims, "Well I don't know how to write a big hit song...
These gains in rote learning are offset by a worrisome inability to reason effectively. More than 60% of all high school students cannot understand the material they read, including newspaper stories or topics they study in class. Fully a fourth of all 13-year-olds fail to grasp the principles of basic math. That problem is apparently not remedied in high school, where almost half of all students are unable to solve problems using decimals, percentages, basic geometry or algebra...
...cost to taxpayers would total about $40 billion in the first decade, but that number in fact described only how much the plan would aggravate budget deficits. The actual spending from general revenues would be closer to $60 billion. But purely from an accounting standpoint, its impact will be offset by $20 billion in increased insurance-premium fees to be collected from the banking industry -- even though the funds will be earmarked for future banking bailouts rather than for cleaning up the thrifts...