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...intellectual life, and I don't know why. I guess I'm naturally a novelist. I want a few hundred pages to make my statement. But that resistance only lasted a minute or so. I read it, and we wrote Annie Proulx our letter asking if we could option it an hour later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Capturing the Cowboys | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...forget that 529s are investments There is risk in any 529 fund and, in most cases, no guarantee that you won't lose money. Pick a plan that has a range of investments, from stocks to a money-market fund or other cashlike option, so that you can move into safer securities as your kids get older. (In other words, you shouldn't be loaded up on tech stocks when Junior is, well, a high school junior.) Most plans you buy directly (i.e., without a financial adviser) include age-based portfolios. That means the fund company decides how you should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Do 529s Pay? | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...undergraduates enrolled in a Foreign Cultures class were given the option of dropping part of their final exam after complaints that teaching fellows (TFs) had given some students information about the test beforehand...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nazi Film Exam Compromised | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...votes are successful, the class of 2007 might have the option of graduating under simpler distribution requirements and the class of 2010 could be the first to declare concentrations during their sophomore rather than freshman year...

Author: By Evan H. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kirby Outlines Review Schedule | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...only way to maintain the integrity of the examination and to ensure fairness would be to offer all students in the class the option to include or discount Part I,” Rentschler wrote. “Had this information come to my attention before the final, I would have certainly prepared a new set of questions...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nazi Film Exam Compromised | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

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