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...student Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) with the school’s underground group of card players, organized by professor Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey). The team needs another player to join their trips to Las Vegas, where they count cards to turn the blackjack odds in their favor. Ben needs tuition money for Harvard Medical School and is soon seduced by the possibility of hitting it big with cards. The players lead a fantasy lifestyle during their excursions away from Cambridge until greed, jealousy, and casino security derail them.From the opening credits, where the camera pans over the surfaces of playing...
...said that Harvard’s Ph.D. completion rate is “way above” the national average, though she could not provide the exact percentage. According to Kyle M. Brown, president of the Graduate Student Council, the obligations of academics, the difficulties of finding money for tuition and research, and increasing personal obligations make life hard for graduate school students. “As graduate students are older, they often have families or spouses and they have to worry more about funding,” he said. “They’re no longer provided...
...Vegas. “It felt like a big party. Everyone was pretty young on the set and we all just had a blast,” said Sturgess. The film, which chronicles Ben’s foray into gambling as a means of paying his medical school tuition, also stars Kate Bosworth as his love interest and Kevin Spacey as the leader of Ben’s blackjack team. “I like how it’s about everyday people going against the system and coming out on top,” said Sturgess. Before filming...
...Harvard and other elite universities takes steps to rein in rising tuition costs, Americans continue to cite the ever increasing cost of a bachelor’s degree as the most pressing issue in higher education. According to a recent poll conducted by The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Gallup Organization, 42 percent of Americans stated that it is “extremely important” for the next president of the United States to address rising college costs. The issue was deemed the most important in higher education, above the quality of education. But out of the nine...
...attribute a lot of the rise to the fact that Dartmouth recently rolled out a very ambitious and dramatic change of its financial aid package,” public relations officer Genevieve Haas said. Haas cited the switch from student loans to grants and the elimination of tuition for families with annual incomes below $75,000 as a reason for the jump in applications. She also noted that Dartmouth also switched to need-blind admissions for international students. Likewise, Stanford hopes new financial measures “should enable [the university] to attract an even more socio-economically diverse freshman...