Word: vermonters
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...prices climb faster than ivy, the leaders, not surprisingly, are the prestigious private schools. Tiny (550 students) Bennington College in Vermont and science giant (4,300 undergraduates) M.I.T. are the costliest. Their tabs, says the College Board: just over $17,000. And the schools believe they are worth it. "We offer extraordinary facilities, extraordinary faculty, extraordinary peers and the best talent available," says M.I.T. Admissions Director Michael Behnke. There is another factor too. "You are paying for prestige," says William Park, professor of English at Sarah Lawrence ($16,285) and a graduate of Princeton...
Three wins and four games later, the Crimson was again paired against a top-15 tandem, Vermont and Maine, the latter of which had bounced Harvard from the NCAA tournament nine months earlier. With seven goals in two contests, the Crimson’s even-strength offense at last began to resemble its 5-on-4 counterpart, and Grumet-Morris logged a total of 61 saves to anchor the victories...
Harvard could not maintain the offensive surge when it returned home, though, as Vermont downed the Crimson 1-0. Harvard managed two goals in the next three games and went 1-2 during the lull...
...what happened next? Harvard won four straight games, manhandling No. 10 Vermont and No. 11 Maine with the efficiency and purpose of a team possessed...
Susan Collins had to change lunch tables. When the Maine Republican entered the Senate in 1997, she joined a group of five Republican moderates who lunched together every Wednesday. But one of them died in 1999, and in 2001 Vermont's Jim Jeffords fell out with the G.O.P. and became an independent. The lunch club got so small it soon disbanded, and Collins now occasionally eats with the Republican Steering Committee, a group of strongly conservative Republicans that has ballooned in membership. "I wanted to find out what they were saying and remind them of another view," Collins said...