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...assume that the 353 people taking Literature and Arts B-20, “Designing the American City” this semester are less attracted to its riveting subject matter than they are to its impossibly low CUE Guide rating for workload. (At 1.8, it more than exceeds the threshold for “painless Core” status...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Generalized Education | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...hyperdetailed doctrinal tests to maintain a looser Christian understanding, adjusted at regular meetings under the low-voltage, first- among-equals leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury. One of the reasons Akinola is both controversial and potentially important is that as the gay issue stretches this understanding past the pain threshold, he is a man unafraid to cut the cord--an uncompromising evangelizer of a sort, more familiar to Americans than to many Anglicans, who is willing to abandon communal solidarity unless it supports a "right" reading of Scripture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Center of a Schism | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...Chapel Hill began the program in 2003, at first offering the no-loans promise to any student from families earning less than 150% of the federal poverty threshold. Since then it has expanded the income cutoff to 200% of the poverty line, and the school currently has about 900 students attending cost-free. "All of us in higher education have been concerned about access and affordability," said Shirley Ort, director of scholarships and student aid at Chapel Hill. "But we did this frankly to simplify our message. With all the media focus about spiraling college costs, we were afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges Boost Aid to Poor Students | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

Florida State has earned an exemption because its Seminoles nickname and mascot is endorsed by that selfsame local tribe; North Dakota’s Sioux have issued no such pardon. But an accurate threshold can not be express approval. What then of the Bears, a perennial Dartmouth opponent? Does Brown have the consent of our ursine friends? You think I’m kidding...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No Sense In Anti-Mascot Crusade | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...largely unwatched vehicles as more run-of-the-mill people become involved through pensions. "Tens of millions of Americans may be unwittingly exposed," wrote the Senate Finance Committee's Charles Grassley last month in a letter to regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to raise the $1 million threshold for individual investors, and is also working on requiring hedge funds to register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello, Hedge Funds | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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