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...went out there to have a bit of an adventure and got more of an adventure than I bargained for.' GILLIAN GIBBONS, the British teacher who spent more than a week in a Sudan jail for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad; she returned to Britain...
Everyone got to see the big event in real time, and the couple could focus just on each other ("We spent 10 hours together," says Casey. "I would have spent five minutes with Jason at a traditional wedding"). It also avoided any conflict between Casey's divorced parents...
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...
...recent years, Harvard has lost several prominent tenured professors because their spouses could not hold another position at Harvard or another nearby institution. Star economics professor Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 headed west for Stanford earlier this year when her husband, who had spent most of his career at Yale, received an offer from the California university...
...Campaign staffers, of course, can be found all over the country. But thanks to the unusually complicated nature of the caucuses (which involves not a quick trip to the voting booth but an entire evening spent at a precinct caucus with complicated procedures) and the unusually keen participation of Iowans, the grassroots campaign here is longer and more intense than almost anywhere else. "Often times, the questions from 12-year-olds in Iowa are far more intelligent and relevant than a lot I've gotten from adults all across the country," says Carter Wamp, 23, of Nashville, a staffer...