Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some schools at the most expensive end of higher education--those that like Ivy League members charge more than $15,000 in tuition, room board and fees a year--plan tuition raises together, often before such financial information is publicly available; the same schools jointly raise tuitions frequently to harvest the prestige tied to expense; a group of 23 elite Northeastern colleges known as the "Overlap" group meets annually to set undergraduate financial aid packages; and, finally those willing to comment say such practices are done publicly with the assumption that agreements avoid "unethical bidding wars" for top students. They...
...time of the accident, Ross was wearing the jacket of his room-mate, Joshua B. Goldstine '90. The Harvard Police on the scene found a slip of paper in the jacket pocket which had Goldstine's name on it and incorrectly identified Ross as Goldstine, said David J. Buttaro '90, another roommate. "Later...they found his wallet," Buttaro said...
...storage room in Kenya's Tsavo National Park, where poaching has been rampant, bears witness to this carnage. Tiny bloodstained tusks from infant elephants fill an entire shelf. Each is the length of a candle. They come from three-four- and five-year-olds who fell before a rain of automatic gunfire. In a corner of the room, elephant tails, rancid and maggot infested, lie in a heap. Behind the building, skulls bleach in the sun. And just up a slope, an orphaned elephant greedily nurses on a bottle of formula and suckles at the fingers of its human keeper...
While good jobs are not hard to come by in the Federal Republic, where skilled labor is in short supply, good housing is another matter. Unlike many of their fellow refugees, the Breites again got lucky. Through a Catholic social-welfare organization, they were able to rent a five-room furnished bungalow on a tree-lined street. "We expected a small apartment, not this," says a delighted Marlies...
...neck veins are popping and his eyes are bulging as he works his way from inmate to inmate, delivering a series of blistering, nose-to-nose tongue-lashings. At the end of Cash's 45-minute outburst, the frightened inmates run right out of their shoes into a dressing room -- and another bout of humiliation. As if on cue, an aide shows up with electric clippers and shaves the young men's heads. The inmates then strip naked, and an assistant sprays them with delousing fluid. All the while, Cash keeps up his string of personal insults...