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...rumble in the Village highlighted a quandary facing middle-class parents across the U.S. With state and local governments slashing public-school budgets, parents often face an unhappy choice: supplement their children's creaky classrooms with their own cash or stick the kids in pricier, more exclusive private schools. While parents have long held bake sales and sold raffle tickets to drum up extra funds for local schools, fund raising today is growing more elaborate and controversial. In Bowie, Md., a nonprofit foundation set up by parents is helping finance a $5 million auditorium. In Winchester, Mass., the Foundation...
...vice president of sales for Todd McFarlane, which makes the Kiss dolls. "This is the first celebrity doll we've made, but there has been a lot of interest." Each Kiss member will retail for about $7.99. Hasbro's General Eisenhower, as befits his station, will be a little pricier, at $49.99. And if you prefer your dolls-in-uniform to come equipped with a riding crop, Hasbro also makes a General Patton...
...Nick's beef double cheeseburger, which is about four times the size of a McDonald's burger, runs $3.95. The roast leg of lamb and the Boston scrod buena vista are pricier, costing...
...substantive virtues of Buchanan's proposal are less clear. If stagnant real wages are the problem, raising the cost of imports is a curious solution. As shoes and microwave ovens at Sears or Wal-Mart get pricier, the real wages of the average American worker go down, not up. When economists cite lower prices as benefits of free trade, protectionists sometimes reply that we should worry more about "workers" and less about "consumers." But, of course, workers are consumers...
...other languages. For them, the semester beings with a visit to Schoenhof's Foreign Books, located on 76A Mount Auburn St. Sure, they don't have to wait in those impossibly long lines at the Coop, but the price they pay for expediency is high: foreign volumes are pricier than even the most obscure of social theory tomes...