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...plan would require students who draw money out of the fund to pay back to the government the sum advanced plus a 50 per cent surcharge--through a 2 per cent withholding tax for each year their income exceeds $5,000. Because the loan would be paid back through the Internal Revenue Service, the bill's sponsors argue that the TAF would avoid the problems of default that have plagued past government loan programs...
...LITTLE BOY, they will even sell you pleasure. Beware your senses, for they will market them and seduce you with their product, and you will find (once you've paid for it) that it is empty--empty and shallow and disingenuous enough to make America sick for a thousand years...
...preferred working under an inadequate contract to going on strike, with the financial hardships a strike entails. Harvard's refusal to compromise is hardly surprising, given the University's generally callous attitude toward union employees. While the contract contains a reasonable wage increase, food services remains a traditionally lower-paid industry. The pensions offered in the latest contract are still pitifully inadequate, and so workers need expanded benefits to fill the wage gap. Despite kitchen workers' requests that the University consider these concerns, Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations and Harvard's chief labor negotiator, refused...
This paradox is always present in any survey of the British university system. Superficially, it seems more elitist and restrictive than the American--but is it, in fact, when the vast majority of those who get to college not only have all their tuition fees paid by the government, but a considerable proportion of their living expenses as well? The introduction of government aid since 1945 has grafted a meritocracy onto a system of tradition designed to make "gentlemen." The student lounging in the Junior Common Room of one of the Oxford colleges (often medieval in origin), taking afternoon...
...drawing showed the new Pope writing a proclamation that said: "No more Polish jokes." Non-Poles, too, quickly identified with the "foreign" Pope as one of their own. "It is as if a Third World Cardinal had won," said Brazilian Paulo Cardinal Evaristo Arns. In Australia, where Wojtyla paid a visit five years ago and was photographed feeding kangaroos, he made front-page news once more. T he strongly positive reaction there and elsewhere was explained not only by the break in the Italian connection but also because Wojtyla is widely traveled. He has visited the U.S. and Canada...