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Harvard education experts trace the lack ofminorities in higher education to the decliningnumber of Blacks and Hispanics attending college.They say that cuts in federal aid to students,increasing tuition costs and insufficientrecruiting efforts have prompted the presentcrisis...
Instead, the conservatives write analyses of tuition tax credit proposals, critiques of desegregation plans and polemics against mainstream civil rights leaders in journals such as The New Republic and Commentary, outlets intended for white, often Jewish, audiences...
...spoke for many Americans who felt their life's work and life's savings threatened last week. Since August, the plunging stock market has erased nearly $1 trillion of wealth that people had been counting on to buy new homes, pay tuition or secure retirement. For investors who had scored spectacular gains, on paper at least, the loss was calculated in the thousands, even millions, of dollars that vanished in a few hours...
...when the fall came, so did a few smirks, along with jokes about yuppie brokers losing their BMWs. But mainly the reaction was personal: What did the crash mean for me, my pension, my mortgage, my business, my job, my tuition bills? Most of the momentous events that splash their headlines for history can be viewed dispassionately from afar. Not a Wall Street panic, however, not even for those who don't play the market...
...showed up for an impromptu forum last Tuesday to discuss the effect of the market's uncertainty on careers. "Let's put it this way: I was a future investment banker," says Harry Friedberg, 21, who used the $17,000 he made trading options last year to pay his tuition and room and board. But now, he says, "I'll look harder at marketing." For Neil Donnenfeld, 25, the panic only confirmed a decision last year to aim for a corporate career. Before he entered Wharton, he had been a broker at Evans & Co., making $75,000 a year...