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...take part in the program you get shuttled off to MIT at the crack of dawn in order to keep Harvard’s ideological stance against discrimination intact, as if Harvard were somehow able to dictate terms to the federal government. I would like to have the section of my taxes devoted to the Farm Bill and the War on Terror remitted to me, but sadly we can’t pick and choose. Harvard has to accept that if it is in the business of training and educating no small number of politicians and future leaders, not having...
Blocking out a section of the store is just the beginning. Retailers are reaching out to today's college crowd where they know kids pay attention. Ikea, for instance, sent out half a million e-mails to incoming freshman and then showed up on a couple of dozen college campuses to hand out mock financial-aid forms with an invitation to cut the high cost of college by buying at Ikea. Bed Bath & Beyond offers college-bound shoppers a handy checklist that reminds students not to forget, among other things, the toaster oven, popcorn maker, snack table, blender and, that...
...retailing industry for Piper Jaffray Cos. By building up back to college as a fully merchandised event--just like Christmas, Halloween or Mother's Day--retailers are redefining what going to college means. Penny-pinching is out; buying cucumber-scented drawer liners is in. In other words, the dorm section at Target may be packed with everything students need, but it also has tons of stuff they don't know they need until they see it. "It's a huge, untapped market that many retailers ignored for years," says National Retail Federation spokeswoman Ellen Tolley. Nothing like making...
...pages following the Arts section, TIME reports on issues affecting women and their families...
...funny, touching memoir to be so stuffed with nutritious bits of trivia that you feel smart for reading it. Jacobs has done the time-consuming work of unearthing the most interesting parts of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. (Seriously, Descartes liked cross-eyed women.) "There were times during the 'Plate Tectonics' section I regretted starting it," he says. "But now I'm happy. At least I've accomplished something in my life." That, in the end, is what the book is about, and it has nothing to do with reading the Britannica...