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...raven, Mortimer—who solves mysteries and incites mass upheaval in Arabel’s household while continually croaking, “Nevermore!”—resemble Roald Dahl’s “Matilda” but are about five thousand times better, thanks to their wry tone and clever literary allusions. —Mary A. Brazelton ’08 is the outgoing Arts Monday editor. She baked several pies to land her position...
...question the Awadis and hundreds of thousands of other exiled Baghdadis ask every day. The bloody sectarian war that drove them from their city having abated, the temptation to return has grown. In recent weeks, several thousand refugees have journeyed home--mostly from Syria, which has introduced tough new visa regulations designed to send back Iraqis and turn away new waves at the border. Many had simply run through their life's savings and could no longer afford exile. (The Iraqi government has offered cash, free transport from the border and other inducements for those who agree to go back...
...loan-based aid and the exclusion of home equity from aid calculations. The new policy will limit annual tuition payments to no more than 10 percent of income for families making between $120,000 and $180,000 annually, reducing tuition payments for families in that bracket by several thousand dollars per term. The University also announced that it will increase financial support for graduate students in order to make Harvard more competitive with its peer institutions, a step that will no doubt increase the quality of undergraduate teaching fellows while also making a graduate degree more affordable...
...What It's Been Good For A picture is worth a thousand words, and so it was in the photograph of Cruise, Streep and Redford [Nov. 12]. Cruise's cocky smile and arms thrown chummily around their shoulders said it all. Cruise looks like he's thinking, Hey, if TIME thinks I belong in their presence, maybe the public at large will also buy it. Dream on! Maarten Reuchlin, RIO DE JANEIRO...
...You’re not going to turn Harvard down because of a thousand dollars difference in stipend levels,” Skocpol said...