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Backing Up: The abundance of injuries to top players has forced Harvard Coach Joe Restic to do a bit of lineup shuffling. One of the unfamiliar names now heard on the PA system is Andy Bell, a junior who has emerged to help stop up the gaps at back...
...harvest the prestige tied to expense; a group of 23 elite Northeastern colleges known as the "Overlap" group meets annually to set undergraduate financial aid packages; and, finally those willing to comment say such practices are done publicly with the assumption that agreements avoid "unethical bidding wars" for top students. They argue that the schools thus can spread around financial aid money to the most needy, mitigate the factor of money in obtaining higher education and hence serve the public good...
...their defense of them. Who decides that education of a particular kind is of equal value and should not be bid for? Here is where arrogance comes in. Somehow the 23 members of the overlap group--the Northeastern elite colleges and universities--have already decided who makes up the top level of education, and how much that top education should cost. Do they then have the right to exclude other educators from their cozy arrangment? Do the 60-plus schools under investigation not become the "education establishment"? Is it not disingenuous to argue for the public good, when...
...have to have years of language training, cultural back-ground, and on top of that, a law degree," Feinerman said...
Today, Harvard (7-2 overall, 3-0 Ivy) is the top team in the current league standings. Okay, so Brown is 3-0-1 in the Ivies and just a tie game away from first place. That doesn't matter...