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...that’s carrying over to next year is really excited for the coming season,” Alpine captain Alex Teng said. At the close of the season, Nordic head coach Peter Graves had high hopes for next season. “We have done some really serious recruiting for the men and we’re optimistic how that might turn out,” Graves said. “We’ve got three guys for sure that we’re pretty confident are going to be coming back, and then with what...
...there is any indication of the extent of it, students at Harvard refer to the “Harvard bubble” as seriously and frequently as the current financial news on the so-called “housing bubble.” Like the housing bubble, the Harvard bubble can easily breed complacency, until it bursts on Commencement Day, and we have to start thinking about mortgages. What a coincidence that we are in the midst of our own housing crisis on campus, one so serious that Harvard has banned college transfers for the 2008-2009 academic year...
...serious roadblock to this mission stems from the structure of the private student loan industry. The common practice of private loan corporations entering into partnerships with universities to be listed as “preferred lenders” has a deleterious impact on students. This year, the Department of Education issued new federal rules aimed at curtailing financial exploitation. Though these new policies were well intentioned, they were also more lenient than many state regulations already in place. The federal intervention could weaken current state laws and undo the accomplishments of New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo...
...President’s dangerous mindset. The Administration has been flirting with the Guatemala regime ever since General Efrain Rios Montt took power in a coup last spring. Reagan wants to end a four-year freeze on arms sales to that country imposed by then-President Carter because of serious human rights violations. Rios Montt has done nothing to deserve the trust that such a change in U.S. policy would indicate. New elections, promised by the Guatemalan leader, are still unsure, and terrorism—particularly from rightist death squads—continues to plague the country. Reagan?...
President Fernandez argues that inflation has been "overstated" and that independent estimates of an annual 25% rise in prices are "not serious." The government claims the inflation rate is only 9%. But inflation is probably the main reason for the drop in her poll ratings, says Sergio Berensztein, whose polling company, Poliarquia, has recorded the plummeting numbers of the President: "It is a sudden drop of 20 points in the two months since the farm crisis began." While the public mood began to shift at the end of her husband's tenure, Berensztein says several factors gave it impetus after...