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...Lansing, Michigan, this week approximately 30 Michigan State University students and faculty picketed the state capitol to protest budget cuts and tuition hikes at Michigan's public universities. In a state hammered by the recession, in-state and out-of-state students at the University of Michigan saw tuition rise 11.6% between the 2007-08 and 2009-10 academic years to $11,659 and $34,937, respectively. In Arizona, two tuition hikes within five months added $1,000 to the bills of incoming freshman. For the new students at Arizona State University, tuition and fees spiked...
...more importantly, extra cash. So why at a time when the number of dinners that Americans are eating out is at an all-time low, and the economy has more and more people turning to their kitchens to (gasp!) cook for themselves, is this niche meal on the rise? Brunch traffic was up 8% during the first eight months of this year compared to the same period in 2008, according to market-research firm NPD Group. Brunch traffic was up 15% in the South, and even in the Northeast, the land of the white-collar layoff, traffic...
...President Barack Obama emphasized that Japan, as the world's second largest economy, has a special role in the global marketplace. One week later, it's becoming clear the country may be special for another reason. While much of the rest of the planet frets about a coming rise in inflation - a consequence of economic recovery, massive stimulus spending and a weakening dollar - Japan faces the opposite problem: a potentially devastating bout of deflation...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro’s rise to power, a period of drastic cultural and political change in the island nation’s history. Marking this occasion, The Boston Printmakers, an artists’ association at Emmanuel College, are presenting an exhibition titled “Making Connections: Contemporary Cuban Printmakers.” Since early October and continuing through Sunday at The Laconia Gallery in Boston, the exhibition showcases prints by over 90 contemporary Cuban artists...
...including representing Elián González's father in his effort to return his son to Cuba. Craig helped defend his law-school classmate Bill Clinton against impeachment, but he broke from the Clintons in 2007 to back Obama and became a key player in his meteoric rise to the presidency...