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During World War II, colonials of many races throughout the Empire fought under the Union Jack. In 1948 a grateful Labor government introduced the British Nationality Act; it said that citizens of the Commonwealth countries were also citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies, thus providing the legal framework for future waves of immigration. By 1955 the first brown and black faces appeared in Yorkshire mill towns, drawn by high wages and, ironically, a vision of colonial-era civility. In 1962, after this immigration reached a peak of nearly 90,000 a year, a worried Parliament began limiting Commonwealth entry...
Within the framework of its financial aid operations, Harvard operates the Parent Loan Plan (PLP), begun with the Class of '80 which helps students with family incomes ranging from $15,000 to $50,000. The plan uses a variety of loans, grants and student work opportunities to allow parents to pay off their debts to Harvard in eight years of monthly installments. Administrators say the plan has increased the yield--the number of accepted students who actually attend--of middle-income students. Before the PLP the yield among students in this range was about ten percentage points lower than other...
President Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat announced their "framework for peace" the night before classes began. The close to a thousand students who flocked the next day to Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," found a different textbook. The course dropped the Samuelson "Bible" in favor of Lipsey and Steiner's "Economics...
...that stand. While the General Education program certainly needed revamping, the Core is not the answer. Its rigid and complicated structure adds unnecessary restrictions to the already limited choices students face in pursuing a 'liberal education.' The Gen Ed principle, requiring a wide variety of courses in a loose framework, is desirable, but the Core goes too far, specifying too narrowly what the undergraduate education will be. It is only a poor substitute for good advice and counseling that would direct students toward a balanced education, without coercing them...
...this seems like an eschatological Upstairs, Downstairs, with the damned as underprivileged and God as absentee slumlord, let the reader be assured that Elkin's Heaven and Hell are mainly framework. Unlike his other novels, centrifuges of virtuosity, The Living End is tightly structured, with a beginning, a middle and a sudden, inevitable...