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Like every organization at Harvard, the Bureau of Study Counsel has to trim costs. And given that tutoring fees haven’t gone up in more than a decade, raising tutors’ prices seems a sensible move. Therefore, we support the BSC’s decision to save money in a way that will not diminish the services it provides by upping its tuition rates from $4 to $7 per hour (while the rate increases to $14 per hour after the first 10 hours, apparently fewer than a quarter of tutoring requests fall into this category). Critical...
...Colorado can be whittled to under $10,000. A buyer could drive off with a new $18,000 Pontiac Vibe from the Bill Rapp Super Store in Syracuse, N.Y., for $10,000 if he or she does the numbers right. And Lakewood Fordland in suburban Denver will conceivably trim up to $17,000 off a loaded 2009 Ford F250 XLT listed...
...panel of federal judges has ordered California to cut its prison population by more than a quarter, ruling that medical care in the overcrowded facilities is so poor that it violates convicts' constitutional rights. Over the next two years, the cash-strapped state must find a way to trim more than 40,000 inmates from its total of about 150,000 (the system is designed for 84,000). Attorney general Jerry Brown said he will appeal the 184-page order...
...Wearwolf will use the phrase as a brand name for an international line of preppy clothing, beginning with men's wear selling for prices ranging from $160 for shirts to $495 for sport coats. The clothes will not bear a Harvard logo or shield, but will include crimson trim around button holes and zippers as well as the "Harvard Yard" brand on the neck label and the hangtag, according to Wearwolf Executive Vice President Jeffrey D. Wolf. Many of the line's clothes are named after buildings around the Harvard campus, he said. For example, shirts will be called Yenching...
Specter himself professes to be completely unconcerned. Campaign manager Christopher Nicholas says Specter is "fighting trim" physically and is politically committed to Democratic ideals. "There are folks on the extremes of either party who will never be satisfied," Nicholas says of liberal voters suspicious of Specter, "but you have to plow ahead and work with those folks who are with you and try to minimize the impact of those that are not with...