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When the budget for paying college tuition is tight--as both national and personal budgets this year are notorious for being--even a small extra expense can spell disaster. And the matter seemed anything but small this summer when Scott Weiner '84, a financial aid recipient, found that Harvard expected him to pay $242 more every month than he paid last year. In fact, for a while he thought the barrier would prove insurmountable. "I don't know what will happen," he says now, though he is returning to school to try. "I don't think there...
Nathaniel Gove, 19, of Kingston, Mass., was diagnosed as dyslectic in the second grade. He was pushed through a special public school program with a dozen other children who had various physical and emotional handicaps. Unable to spell, for example, he was told to "just skip it." In junior high school, he was assigned to a large special-education class that satisfied the law but virtually ignored Nat's problems. He and his parents were unaware of how little he was learning until a college counselor told his father: "Your son is hopeless." Furious at the summary judgment...
...continuing economic decline. According to government statistics, industrial production in the first seven months of this year was 7.3% lower than in the same period last year. To compound the problem, early indications that agricultural production would improve this year have been thrown off by a long dry spell. The potato and sugar-beet harvest may be 25% smaller than in 1981. This can only put further strains on weary Polish consumers, who already find it difficult to make ends meet. Though wages have risen 40% this year, prices have doubled...
...pomp and ceremony, the Versailles summit [June 14] failed to put forward any concerted plan to overcome the economic crisis or to help the Third World. Though mutual pledges were exchanged and an appearance of unity was displayed, once the spell of Versailles has faded, each of the seven will lapse again into nationalistic self-interest. The Western world badly wants unity, but the summit was just another show of pageantry...
...best French painter to fall under Caravaggio's spell was, however, Georges de La Tour (1593-1652). His own Fortune Teller (the subject was perhaps bound to be popular in a country as worried about the future as early 17th century France) is condemned at the moment to a period of freakhood, thanks to 60 Minutes, which briefly rose from its usual torpor about cultural affairs to pillory it as a modern forgery. Reputable scholars agree, however, that there is no real question about The Fortune Teller's authenticity; its age has now been scientifically confirmed. It remains...