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Raising a passel of kids is an enormous financial undertaking even for the affluent. An oft quoted 2004 study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that families earning at least $70,200 a year spent $269,520 raising one child--and that's just until the age of 17. Tack on four years of college, and you're looking at a nearly half-million-dollar tab for each, or almost $3 million for six. "If you sit down and write out the numbers, nobody would have children," scoffs Jen Reid, 37, a stay-at-home mom in Berwyn...
...example, are hammering out new Constitutions that may give them unlimited presidential reelection. The fact that Venezuelans this morning resisted that urge - and that Chavez so maturely backed off himself when he saw it - may give other countries pause for thought as well. It could even revive the oft-ridiculed notion that this might after all be the century of the Americas...
...benefit cash-strapped students, but will also help to support small businesses in the Square (such as Herrell’s and Dickson Brothers Co.) who choose to participate. The UC representatives behind the initiative have proven themselves willing and able to facilitate projects that respond to strong but oft-overlooked needs on campus. Other colleges and high schools have long had student discount cards; it is about time that Harvard students take advantage of their pooled purchasing power as well. Hopefully, students will choose to use their cards frequently, and Square businesses will respond in kind by expanding their...
...Taliban eras to average Afghani citizens of nearly every tribe and creed. Her book becomes more than an excellent political history; it is also a people’s history, interwoven with stories of normal Afghani people literally caught in the crossfire that add a layer of complexity to oft-cited terrorist stereotypes. From the very first chapter, Gannon’s thesis is clear: The failure of Afghanistan is the failure of West. She accuses Western governments—and the United States in particular—of driving Afghanistan into chaos by permitting the ruthless mujahideen warlords...
...those of us in the press box have no such mind-altering recourse to the mind-numbing dominance of the 2007 Yale defense. Eleven returning starters, a preponderance of that oft-sung “senior leadership”, and experience at burying Pizzotti makes this game over before it even starts...