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...Sticker shock at the cost of a Harvard education—$39,880 this year including room and board—can be a problem, but Donahue said Harvard is trying to prevent price from limiting the applicant pool...
...probably the right policy move on the merits, but let’s not fool ourselves about the administration’s motives—all that “war on terror” rhetoric doesn’t stand a chance if Floridians start having sticker shock at the pump weeks before the election...
...uninsured are typically the only ones forced to pay sticker price. The lawsuits complain that hospitals then aggressively pursue patients for the full charge, sometimes garnishing wages, placing liens on homes, and in some cases lumping the bad debt into their calculation of charity care, a controversial accounting practice. "There's nothing charitable about it," contends Scruggs, noting that medical debt is a leading cause of personal bankruptcy...
...many talents. So much charm ... But, in the end, to what end? So much promise, to no great purpose." Clinton returned fire at the Democratic Convention in Boston last month. "Strength and wisdom," he declared, "are not opposing values." That was his delicate version of the venomous bumper sticker: BUSH: LIKE A ROCK, ONLY DUMBER. But lest John Kerry get smug, Clinton is the guy who warned his fellow Democrats in December 2002 that voters in dangerous times may prefer a candidate who is strong and wrong to one who is weak and right...
...buyers who may be worried about mad-cow disease from Canadian beef or hepatitis A from Mexican vegetables, are fighting for laws to require that food be labeled with its country of origin. In surveys, 80% of consumers say they prefer to buy American. "Meat bears a USDA-inspected sticker, but that doesn't mean it is American," says rancher Carolyn Carey, who trademarked the Born & Raised in the USA label...