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...leveling the playing field between privileged and underprivileged students. Similarly, the decision to stop considering home equity in the calculation that determines a family’s ability to pay—which will cut out an average of $4,000 per year in payments—is a wise one. Houses are not liquid assets, and a family should not be penalized for increases in housing prices that do not affect a family’s short-term financial situation. All in all, this program appears to be one that has been well thought through and will certainly help...
...Numbers-wise the outcome would have been the same, but fencing is hardly a direct game of numbers. It’s just like in baseball: even if a team loses 4-2 and one run would seem to make no difference overall, a player being called out at home at some point could have changed the game’s entire complexion and made all the difference in the world...
...students. The opportunity for students to evaluate their professors and Teaching Fellows (TFs) is an unusual role-reversal that allows for reflection and pedagogical improvement, not simply for what Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 notoriously called “the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors.” Ratings also play a role in the tenure process and help improve the benchmark for a Harvard education.If today’s motion is passed, all courses with five or more enrolled students will be required to participate...
Short-term retail optimism brings no cheer, though, to the economy's wise men, who talk mainly of an imminent downturn. "The odds now favor a U.S. recession," writes former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in a newspaper column. "I'd put the number at about a 75% chance," says investing guru Jack Bogle on TV. "We are becoming more certain that the recession is either here or no more than two quarters away," warns Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg in a note to clients...
...Philip Pullman is tall and handsome and pink-faced in that way that older Englishmen often are. His conversation easily ranges from theoretical physics to the work of John Milton. He's like one of those wise, stern-but-humorous uncles usually played in movies by Michael Caine or Jim Broadbent. He doesn't look particularly satanic. But then again, neither, probably, does Satan...