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...four years, school revenues from tuition are up 21%. A similar method has also worked for New York City's independent Manhattan Country School, which is far more expensive but where 44% of the students are members of minority groups. In what the school calls a tithe, well-to-do families pay 10% of their income up to a maximum of $4,700, while poor families pay much less...
Such a plan might counteracts the danger that students would pursue careers with high starting salaries solely to pay back their loans, or that only the well-to-do might be able to finance any professional education at all Bok said...
...take them, you will have to shoot me first." If Eichmann was the kind of man who could relish the anguished pain of millions of people, Wallenberg was a man who could not bear to witness the pain of one individual. It seems as though Wallenberg--who, as a well-to-do Gentile, could have sat through the war in comparative comfort in Sweden--felt personally responsible for helping the Jews. Before he left on his mission to Budapest, according to Bierman, he told a friend, "I cannot stay in Sweden beyond the beginning of July. Every day costs human...
...named Bruno and his mother board a train to return home from a summer holiday. They are evidently well-to-do; their accommodations are first class and their fellow passengers fashionable. One incident mars the trip. The train stops unexpectedly, and the non-Christians aboard are politely asked to get off and show their papers to a local official. Bruno and his mother are among those who obey. Once this is done, the journey resumes. The setting is Austria in the late 1930s...
...most visible problem in this rootless region is crime. South Floridians talk about crime the way people elsewhere talk about sports or politics. Listen, for example, to Carole Masington, the wife of an attorney, who lives in a well-to-do suburb of South Miami: "We had two manhunts in my neighborhood in one week. One friend was mugged, another was assaulted and raped. My favorite storekeeper was beaten and hospitalized, and my mother was robbed twice. And I am just one person." Or hear the Rev. Paul MacVittie, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Miami...