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...year's prospective students may be targeting their inquiries more carefully; and Inzer says parents are consulting financial aid counselors earlier in the college-search season than ever before. "I think now people are saying, 'This is what we can afford, so before you get your hopes set on X College, let's talk to them,'" she says. "We need to remind them how important education is as an investment...
More taboo than sex, more divisive than baseball, politics—the art of making the possible impossible—has given us the country we have, and the country we don’t. On alternate Fridays, Elise X. Liu ‘11 takes a blunt and unabashedly partisan look at the power behind the pettiness, and the facts behind the news...
...Other platforms take a less serious approach. George X. Huang ’12 is making promises to build an adult-sized playground on campus. “This is very ambitious,” his Facebook site acknowledges, “but a preliminary goal of 10-15 swing sets would be fantastic, even in winter.” In addition, he proposes a “bunny breeding” program to increase the presence of the furry animals on campus. The Facebook group for Agnes Z. Dardas ’12 says that...
...that it instills a false sense of self-worth in them. He wrote that the biggest failure of elite education is that it is self-perpetuating, preventing the American intelligentsia from evolving. Despite being promoted as a debate, after briefly introducing themselves, the two undergraduates—Elise X. Liu ’11 and Jeffrey J. Phaneuf ’10—ceded the floor to Deresiewicz, who spoke for around 40 minutes on the shortcomings of elite education. “I’m not against the existence of the elite,” Deresiewicz said...
...secret X-band radar will be staffed by around 120 American technicians and security guards in the Negev, say Israeli military sources. But Israeli planning and air force officials are perturbed that Defense Minister Barak did not carry out any evaluation og the radar's possible impact on Israeli military operations before approving it. For one thing, Israeli defense experts are worried that waves from the X-band radar might throw off the accuracy of a new Gil anti-tank missile also being tested in the Negev. "The Bush Administration is in the mood to give us anything, as long...