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...power figure to buy a gossipist's favor? That would be a new wrinkle that, if made public, would be hard to Botox. Stern, who has not seen the tape, avers that the incriminating quotes are "snippets taken out of context." He does admit to meeting with Burkle twice and to asking for money. ("Um, $100,000 to get going and month to month, $10,000.") But he denies it was extortion. "The money that was talked about was as an investment in my clothing company," Stern told TIME, "and as a fee for consulting on a media strategy...
...nowadays largely eschew anything resembling lessons. Their view is that children need intensive one-on-one tuition to master the three Rs, but thereafter only guidance and access to books. The jovial Smith plonks his youngsters on his knees and tells them news and stories. They go to church twice on Sundays and travel often within New Zealand and occasionally overseas. Three times a day they eat together as a family. "Visitors will say, 'You're not doing any schooling at all!' I'll say, 'You're correct. However, the children are learning heaps, and they're learning...
...Once the ball went by the block, we couldn’t defend well.” Harvard will round out its season with a match against Hay rival New Jersey Tech on Saturday afternoon. And though the Crimson knows that its season will soon be over, having lost twice this season to the Highlanders will be motivation enough. “It’s a matter of pride,” McKiernan said. “They’re always cocky, and we’ve lost to them twice this season.” We?...
...react to the plight of an impoverished Mexican worker living just miles from America whose wife and two children are beginning to display signs of malnourishment because the worker’s wages are so paltry? If only the worker could make it across the border, he could earn twice as much money. He realizes the risks, as entering America without documentation is illegal and dangerous. But to this father, immigration restrictions pale in comparison to the survival of his offspring. So he crosses the border, hoping to send home wages that will sufficiently feed his family. Would Jesus condemn...
...spokesman for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, of which Harvard is a member. Schools that increased tuition above a certain rate over three years could be included on a federal “black list” accessible to the public, he said. Tuition hikes over twice the rate of inflation would be targeted, according to Pals. Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations, Kevin Casey, said that federal oversight of college tuitions is “something that we think is unfounded and is arbitrary and does not take into account...