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...education, but hundreds of schools have been torched by insurgents--about the only thing going right these days is the kitemaking industry. One of the more capricious moves of the Taliban regime, along with the banning of music and the requirement that all men grow beards, was a total prohibition of kite flying. In the first heady days after the fall of the Taliban in December 2001, men shaved, music blasted on car stereos and kites took to the air. For Noor Agha, Kabul's best kite maker, business has been soaring ever since...
...awards a total of 13 party fund grants each week after evaluating submission forms. Nine $100 and four $200 grants are awarded to parties in suites unaffiliated with student groups...
...inflation-adjusted to today’s dollars. Four-fifths of American households had annual incomes in excess of that. Beyond assistance with the direct cost of college, very few students counted on parents for help with housing or income. Student loans were small, seldom more than $2,000 total, and most of those who borrowed paid off their loans quickly...
First: Put an end to the 25-year-long above-inflation run-up in tuition by freezing tuition and fees at 2006 levels at all its schools. At the College, this means holding the line at $33,709, with total charges of $43,655. The current annual rate of inflation, according to the most recent CPI, is 3.17 percent. A University-wide freeze on tuition and fees would cost roughly $15 to $20 million, which translates into less than one-half of one percent of last year’s $3.7 billion growth in the endowment...
Harvard would not be the first to address this problem: Not long ago, Princeton eliminated undergraduate student loans, and in January, announced a tuition freeze, albeit with a rise in room and board charges that will result in an above-inflation total net increase in student costs. Harvard can and should do Princeton one better, by holding the line on both tuition and fees...