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Harvard's stance on discrimination in the U.S. military is about to effect its pocketbook. Under the provisions of the Solomon Amendment, this fiscal year Harvard Law School (HLS) stands to lose almost $1 million in federal grants due to its ban on military recruitment at its Office of Career Services (OCS). The ban, which exists because of the military's policy regarding homosexuals, is an important measure of protest that HLS should uphold. The loss of funding with which the law school is threatened is an act of aggressive financial coercion which inappropriately ties scholarship money to the school...
...claim that Tennessee was not only the best team in the Southeastern Conference, but also in the nation. It gave him a chance to prove his mettle to the Heisman voters from previous years. He failed at all but one. So what? He placed his honor over his pocketbook...
...party, a cancan line of irrepressible bankers and impossibly rich computer nerds dancing on the grave of the business cycle, while politicians of all kinds sing the praises of a new economy that might let them be re-elected forever and ever, as long as people keep voting their pocketbook. So now what...
...There is literally a college for every pocketbook and purpose," the draft read. It went on to compare the cost of tuition for most full-time undergraduates to that of a "decent used...
Berg's Kabbalah is heavier on the pocketbook. Classes are reasonable, as little as $10, but costs escalate with the purchase of the center's books and tapes. For example, its 24-volume edition of the Zohar, in Aramaic and Hebrew, sells for $345, three times the price of similar compilations. Rabbi Michael Skobac, a consultant for Jews for Judaism, has received complaints of aggressive and unethical door-to-door solicitation by center teachers. In addition, some members report feeling squeezed for cash. "At the center, they say you can only make a difference when you give until it hurts...