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...yourself perusing Facebook for pics of that cute guy in section when you remember—shit! You forgot to submit your paper to your TF! No problem, before long it’s zooming through cyberspace onto her desktop as an email attachment. You breathe a sigh of relief. Life used to be tough, you muse while gazing affectionately at your new best friend and faithful tagalong: the iPhone. A chic mobile, a widescreen mp3 player, a two-megapixel camera and an Internet browser all in one, the $500 iPhone is just slightly larger than a current-generation iPod...
...tuition freeze, room and board costs at Princeton will still increase that school’s annual composite price by 4.2 percent for an undergraduate with a full meal plan. But general tuition freezes are not the best choice to help students who have the greatest need of financial relief. Tuition, after all, is fundamentally a market price paid by students who can afford it, while financial aid programs cover, as much as possible, students who cannot afford full tuition—and who still sometimes receive aid that is meager or insufficient, even at schools with the most generous...
...against Harvard. Vaillancourt scored two goals, and Chu and Johnston added one apiece. Wilson finished with four points on a goal and three assists. Union’s goal came after the starter in net, sophomore Brittany Martin, was pulled and junior reserve Kristin Toretta had come on in relief. The untested Toretta, with only 20 minutes of collegiate experience, allowed Suzy Pocock’s eighth of the season in addition to making two saves.“It’s great for the team to get a chance to get some people involved,” Sifers...
Hollywood, currently nursing a weapons-grade crush on Africa, has also turned its klieg lights on the plight of its children. Perhaps you heard about a couple of celebrities adopting kids from there? Fascination with the continent's woes dates back to Bob Geldof's famine-relief concerts in the mid-'80s. Bono picked up the baton in the '90s, and now every African nation seems to have its own celebrity benefactor. George Clooney has made the situation in Darfur one of his key talking points. Madonna is building an orphan center in Malawi. Brad Pitt helped produce and Nicole...
...Meccas of Manhattan or Beverly Hills. He began instead to evoke the bygone lives of the world he came from, people so conscious of their ordinariness, their smallness, their vulnerability to vast social forces that for them laughter could not be a healing touch, only a palliative relief...