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...THIRTEEN THOUSAND dollars is a lot of money to pay for a year's education. But the University's financial wizards have pie charts to prove that we're only paying about a third of the "real cost" of being a student. These are the same people who are currently raising $350 million to help pad the ermine-lined vaults of Baybank Harvard Trust: you have to figure they're treating you fairly. So you send off the big check and arrive at Harvard, confident that you have forestalled the dreaded red dot for another semester, that...
...television every day have made it unlawful to copy a program for later viewing at home." The court found, moreover, that Disney and Universal-and, by extension, the entertainment industry-had failed to prove that the practice caused them financial injury or damaged the value of their copyrighted work. Thirteen years after the introduction of the VCR, a switch in time is no longer a crime...
...years," exults Jack Gilstrap, executive vice president of the American Public Transit Association (A.P.T.A.). Since 1972, when San Francisco cut the ribbon on its high-tech headache, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), six other U.S. cities have opened new rail systems. Six cities currently have lines under construction. Thirteen other systems either have been proposed or are on the drawing boards...
...Thirteen years ago, a couple of college quarterbacks from opposite sides of the country finished one-two in the voting for the Heisman trophy, and headed out in different directions. Both took winding trails, but somehow reached the Super Bowl. Along the way they encountered enough breaks of the game so that, between them now, they represent the total experience of the position. Soon they may make it all the way back to each other...
...Thirteen years later, Bernstein is back at Harvard on a Nieman Fellowship, a prestigious one-year sabbatical for some of America's most promising journalists...