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...price of a college education continues to creep upward, Harvard is offering financial aid packages to middle-income families who only a few years ago might not have been eligible for assistance. Last year, 1,362 Harvard undergraduates whose families made more than $100,000 received aid grants from the College. That figure included 351 students whose families made more than $160,000. In all, 3,357 College students received non-loan aid last year, out of a total of about 6,600 undergraduates. The rise in aid for what the College calls middle-income families reflects a concern that...
...itself big news. Sure, Radiohead is on a sustained run as the most interesting and innovative band in rock, but what makes In Rainbows important - easily the most important release in the recent history of the music business - are its record label and its retail price: there is none, and there is none...
...available only via the band's web site, Radiohead.com. There's no label or distribution partner to cut into the band's profits - but then there may not be any profits. Drop In Rainbows' 15 songs into the online checkout basket and a question mark pops up where the price would normally be. Click it, and the prompt "It's Up To You" appears. Click again and it refreshes with the words "It's Really Up To You" - and really, it is. It's the first major album whose price is determined by what individual consumers want...
...Massachusetts Joint Committee on Higher Education is set to hear testimony from students, faculty, and student advocates tomorrow on a bill that aims to reduce textbook prices across the state. The legislation, House Bill 1200—known as the Affordable Textbooks Bill—would require publishers selling textbooks to universities to disclose wholesale prices, a list of all of their products, and an estimated length of time that they expect to keep the product on the market. In addition, the bill would require bundled books to be made available individually. “It’s good...
...earlier this year, Habsburg put the castle up for sale, with an asking price of $100 million. Now opposition parties in parliament have responded by attempting to annul the original agreement that handed him back the castle. In a resolution last week they found the original deal null and void. The case is now likely to go to the supreme court...