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...such economists would be forgetting Harvard's little pact with God. Instead of pledging to increase financial aid this year, Harvard pledged close to nothing (our offers would remain within "shouting distance" of those of other schools, promised President Neil L. Rudenstine). And now the results are in. Not only did the College's higher prices fail to deter students from enrolling; the percentage of admitted students choosing to matriculate actually increased...
...came down, unsurprisingly, to the browser. Microsoft's statement Saturday confirmed that Gates was willing to modify his licensing agreements with computer manufacturers to let them decide which products and services they could feature on their own machines. But Klein wasn't interested in settling for another minor pact reminiscent of his predecessor Anne Bingaman's infamous 1994 consent decree, now widely derided as a sellout that only postponed the day of reckoning. The deal, struck in 1994 and ratified in '95, granted Microsoft the right to sell "integrated" products--i.e., software like Windows that combines more functions than...
...such economists would be forgetting Harvard's little pact with God. Instead of pledging to increase financial aid this year, Harvard pledged close to nothing (our offers would remain within "shouting distance" of those of other schools, promised President Neil L. Rudenstine). And now the results are in. Not only did the College's higher prices fail to deter students from enrolling; the percentage of admitted students choosing to matriculate actually increased. Selling Harvard, it seems, is something like selling insulin. People are going to buy it no matter how much it costs...
...that he's helped out with the Irish pact [WORLD, April 20], why not ask former Senator George Mitchell to take on the Middle East? DAVID SADTLER London...
...elicits yawns, not demonstrations. The accord is the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, which would prevent countries from favoring domestic companies over foreign ones and allow businesses to sue governments that they felt violated their rights as investors. And the man the environmentalists were railing against was one of the pact's chief proponents, Renato Ruggiero, head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the body that oversees the global trading system...