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...result of this egalitarian treatment is that most professors could make more money as a franchise professor at a less prestigious university or even in the private sector, where the pay scale is not so evenhanded...
Events sponsored by the Class Committee fall on the lower end of the cost scale--ranging from free to $12 for the Moonlight Cruise--whereas events sponsored by the Commencement Office include the senior picnic luncheon with its $20 fee per guest and $35 tickets for the Class of 1998 Clambake...
Along with the confrontation of racialproblems, a small-scale sexual revolution wastaking place within the College, and alcohol anddrugs were staples of the social scene...
...born. Everyone else in town, including Meryl (Laura Linney) and Marlon (Noah Emmerich), is an actor, improvising from a loose scenario devised by the project's creator, Christof (Ed Harris). The Truman Show, as the program is called, is TV's most elaborate prank: Candid Camera on an epochal scale and at a muted pitch. Christof has created the largest man-made structure in history (the huge domed studio that is Seahaven), with a working town, a roiling sea and hundreds of extras, simply to convince one person that his life is real. In this scheme Truman is the human...
...banking news in the startling success of microbanks around the world. More than 7,000 microcredit institutions offer tiny loans (averaging about $100) to destitute people to generate income through self-employment. The results are higher incomes, better health and better school attendance. Microbanking now functions on a large scale. For example, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh has more than 2 million borrowers, most of them village women, in one of the world's poorest countries. Yet the on-time repayment rate is 98%. In the microbanks, the interests of the customers, not global strategy, come first. BLAISE SALMON Victoria...