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Every spring, exchanges like this occur among the deans of 23 top private colleges. The idea is to avoid bidding wars for students accepted by more than one college, and to ensure that institutions are similarly interpreting financial information submitted by parents. But the Justice Department has decided to look into this practice, as well as into the fact that within groupings -- the Ivy League schools and the Seven Sisters, for example -- yearly tuitions tend to be similar. Presumably Justice wants to determine whether there is any violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which prohibits restraint of trade...
WHILE split into two distinct sections on Beirut and Jerusalem, From Beirut to Jerusalem consistently develops Freidman's underlying theme that both Lebanon and Israel, two very different societies on the surface, are actually beset by similar problems...
This was one of the most disturbing elements of Friedman's assignment, the disillusionment of a Minneapolis Jew who idealized Israel as a "City on the Hill" in the Middle East but found its actions sometimes too similar to those of the other factions in the area...
...earlier days the IEM, modeled after a similar program at the Business School, focused discussions on the campus issues of the time, such as, Levine suggests, "how to respond to campus rioting." True to its Business School roots, the IEM utilized the case-study method which continues to dominate the PPE summer programs today...
Montero-Seiburth is hoping that a second program similar to the Institute on Multicultural Education also can be established which will address some of these needs. This program would be on "a higher level with greater intensity" than this year's Institute...