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...that American icon and the important people in his life. For more than 50 years, I have been fascinated by the Civil War, Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the issues surrounding slavery. If your report had been available years ago, I could have saved the tuition for a couple of undergraduate and graduate courses as well as a few feet of Lincoln books in my library. Ah, but the fun is in the reading and discovering what Lincoln the man reveals to different scholars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 25, 2005 | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

Each year, hundreds of high-school and college students from across the nation and around the world descend on Harvard’s grassy campus in Cambridge to attend the Summer School, forking over more than $4,000—the equivalent of an entire semester’s tuition at some state schools—to take a course in Harvard’s hallowed halls...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer Programs Cull Busy Students | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

...sure what she will do if she doesn't go to college. She can't work legally, though she might do some baby sitting. But her long-term plan is clear. "I'd like to become an American citizen," she says. That would be one way to solve the tuition problem. --With reporting by Bud Norman/Wichita

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Gets the Break? | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

Surprisingly, money is not the big issue. In Texas, which in 2001 became the first state to grant such tuition benefits, fewer than 8,000 undocumented immigrants--out of a public college population of more than 1 million--got reduced rates last year. Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that favors tighter immigration rules, says it is more a matter of principle: "Extending in-state tuition is a way of legitimizing their presence. It is back-door amnesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Gets the Break? | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

Education is a tricky battleground. "There's an emotion to it that makes it different from day laborers hanging out in front of the Home Depot," says Krikorian. In North Carolina an in-state-tuition bill died in committee in May after talk radio helped stir a furor "one hundred times bigger than Terri Schiavo," in the words of Kevin Miller, a host at WPTF in Raleigh. Many listeners were worried that expanded in-state rates would not only suck up taxpayer dollars but would also make it harder for their kids to get into top state schools like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Gets the Break? | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

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