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Tuition hikes at American four-year public and private colleges have slowed to a six-year low but continue to outpace inflation by more than two percent, according to the College Board’s annual report on college pricing released yesterday...
...Harvard Interim President Derek C. Bok’s job look like a walk in the yard.A CANTAB TO THE CORESaheed’s roots with the high school stretch back over three decades. He first came to CRLS in 1974 as a student teacher before eventually serving a six-year stint as a dean. Saheed says he has “a great deal of experience with the students and families in this community”—and that has made his transition from dean to principal smooth, at least so far. He?...
...savage history of foreign wars and civil strife left the country little strength for nation building. In 1864 Paraguay blustered into the suicidal, six-year War of the Triple Alliance against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay; out of a population of 525,000, only 220,000 survived, and only 28,000 of these were men. Again in the Chaco War of the 1930s, Paraguay took on Bolivia and won 20,000 sq. mi. of wilderness borderland?at a cost of one Paraguayan life for each square mile. Thus the prize won in 1954 by Stroessner, a veteran of the Chaco...
...Annette Bening - as well as Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and others - had gathered at the palatial home of legendary producer Mike Medavoy to hear the investigative journalist speak about the current state of the Middle East and, specifically, Iran. Only recently released from an Iranian prison after serving a six-year sentence for "harming national security" and "spreading propaganda," Ganji, 47, is barnstorming the U.S. this summer to gain support for his reformist movement. He declined an invitation to the White House last month, claiming he doesn't represent a specific opposition party or faction. But this week, he seemed...
...six-year veterans of strokes gone awry, fancy ourselves the playground’s primary artists...