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Many publishers, including the three major players in the collegiate textbook market—Pearson, McGraw Hill and Thomson??charge students in America twice as much for textbooks as they charge students in Europe or Asia. The publishers are price discriminating, charging Americans more than students in other nations because U.S. customers are willing and able to pay more. But such a policy is inherently unfair to poor American college students who would benefit greatly from the discounts offered to all students, rich and poor, in other countries...
What made Harwell such a great broadcaster was his ability to bring anecdotes and memories from years past—he was, for example, on the call for Bobby Thomson??s “Shot Heard ’Round the World” in 1951—while staying young in heart and mind, prompting Red Sox broadcaster Joe Castiglione to call Harwell the most contemporary octogenarian he’s ever known...
...Thomson??s work with the Nieman Foundation, which awards fellowships for mid-career journalists to study at Harvard, was “absolutely the highpoint of his working life,” said his stepdaughter, Anne Butler in a press release...
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