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Harvard students and their parents borrowed approximately $13 million last year, of which $10.3 million was taken out in parent loans...
...came on screen, I felt like I was seeing a startlingly well-fed, auburn-tressed ghost. A ghost that delivered each wooden line reading in a hoarse screech. This may be another Disney remake, but Lohan ain’t the adorable star of “The Parent Trap” anymore...
...than 20 percent African American. At the same time, the phenomenon is essentially non-existent among black students in primarily black schools, as well as among black students attending private schools. Fryer noted that other factors—such as under-funding, differences in teaching quality, and disparities in parent-teacher interaction—probably explain the differences in overall performance among the nation’s schools...
...students as the maker of small refrigerators popular in dorm rooms, is teaming with a U.S. private-equity firm to bid for Maytag, the struggling appliance maker based in Iowa. And 19 years after getting his M.A. in petroleum engineering from U.S.C., Fu wants to own Unocal, once the parent of those Union 76 gas stations. The company he heads, China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), topped a $16.5 billion bid from Chevron for the ninth largest U.S. oil company...
...mute the deal's critics in Washington. To them, a takeover of Maytag is one thing--"We don't go to war over washing machines," said Republican Congressman Richard Pombo of California--but energy is a different story. With the Chinese government subsidizing the deal--CNOOC's parent company, wholly owned by the state, will give it an $8.5 billion, 30-year loan at just 3.5% interest--cries of predatory financing are inevitable. So too are complaints (accurate enough) that there is little chance a Western oil major could buy outright one of China's biggest energy companies...