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...sake of current and future generations of students, this ever-rising spiral of tuition and debt must be broken. Very soon, Harvard is scheduled to announce its tuition for 2006-07. Last year, the endowment rose by roughly $2.5 billion. Given this, will Harvard once again add to the financial burdens on students and their families? If any tuition increase is in fact announced, we urge Bok to intervene, as interim president, to postpone it, pending an inquiry into whether part of the University’s recent growth in wealth could be used to offset the need for more...
...like Saddam still in power, with our sanctions starving millions while U.N. funds lined the pockets of crooks and criminals? At some point the wreckage that is and was Iraq would have had to be dealt with. If we hadn't invaded, at some point in the death spiral of Saddam's disintegrating Iraq, others would. It is also true that it is far too soon to know the ultimate outcome of our gamble...
...Brian Cusworth. “That’s not who we are. We plan on going out with two big wins and ending the season on a high note.” It will not be easy. Cornell (11-15, 6-6) started Harvard’s downward spiral with a last-second 79-77 win in Ithaca on Feb. 4. Columbia (11-14, 4-8) has been playing much better since the Crimson beat it 69-59 on Feb. 3, and is the only team to defeat league-leading Penn. Cornell is the lone Ivy team, besides Princeton...
...from Fred Astaire to Savion Glover; in Toluca Lake, Calif. The self-taught Nicholas Brothers leaped to prominence in the '30s, performing flips and splits with ease. Their acrobatics landed them roles in nearly 30 films--including 1943's Stormy Weather, whose finale features a flawless leapfrog down a spiral staircase. But because of Jim Crow--era practices, the African-American brothers rarely got starring or speaking parts...
...galley is placed in the center of a children's playground; the men move into a carefully choreographed spiral; then, on cue, they toss in their torches and with a roar, the ship goes up in a blaze of glory. tel: (44-8701) 999 440; www.visitshetland.com