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With a price tag of $8,135, Harvard Summer School is no bargain, especially considering the College Board report that 70 percent of students attending four-year colleges in 2004-2005 paid less than $8000 in annual tuition and fees...
Harper’s resignation marks the departure of the only known dissenter on the Corporation. In a four-year period of unprecedented turnover, the board has grown ever more friendly to Summers with additions such as Robert E. Rubin ’60, Summers’ close friend and predecessor as secretary of the Treasury...
...that this is a month of relentless gaiety. News events of August include the collapse of 330-lb. William ("the Refrigerator") Perry at the Chicago Bears football training camp; the Bears' defensive coach called the overstuffed Refrigerator, who has a four-year contract worth $1.3 million, "a wasted draft choice and a waste of money." Other news: road repairs in Duluth, Minn.; the annual reunion of the 450-member Robinson family in Cleveland; the opening of a shopping center in St. Louis, where a time capsule received contributions of old draft cards, snapshots of pet dogs...
...thousands of U.S. families, the pride of sending a youngster to college is being tempered by the chilly reality of rising costs. Last week the College Board, a research and service organization, reported that the price for four-year public schools has jumped 8% over last year, to an average of $5,314; for private institutions 7%, to $9,659. These figures, for students living on campus, include tuition, books and supplies, housing, transportation and incidentals, and climax a decade in which the rates for higher education have more than doubled. The really bad news is that they are currently...
...wedding will take place in late April next year in Austin, Texas. In the meantime, Ms. Cowman plans to pursue research in a psychology laboratory, while Mr. Schetter continues his four-year term in the Navy. “I still feel lucky and I still have a huge crush on him,” Ms. Cowman says. —A.E.L...