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"The financial system nearly collapsed," he said, "because smart guys had started working on Wall Street." He took a sip of his martini, and stared st...
AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 09.11.2009 | Home
BOSTON — The total value of Harvard's endowment plunged nearly 30 percent in the last fiscal year as the Ivy League institution's portfolio was ...
AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
BOSTON — The total value of Harvard's endowment plunged nearly 30 percent in the last fiscal year as the Ivy League institution's portfolio was ...
Anis Shivani | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
In the spirit of bipartisanship, I offer the following: Drop the lame attacks on Sonia Sotomayor, because they're not going to work.
Dennis Danziger | Posted 04.12.2009 | Comedy
This year I've adopted a new system. I'm betting on the colleges with the highest SAT scores and the strictest admission's policies.
Lisa Solod Warren | Posted 04.03.2009 | Living
If being an elitist means that I still and will always care about nurturing my mind and the minds of others then I will wear that banner proudly.
Kat Cohen | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
There is no real "top 50 colleges": this zero-sum game of rankings renders meaningless. Students must examine a college's philosophy, environment, and academic offerings themselves.
Shunit Harpaz | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
There is a great potential for a positive change in our society, a change where people take charge of serving the public, living a life that is meaningful and satisfying.
The Independent | Mary Dejevsky | Posted 02.13.2009 | World
What is it about American ideas that Britain, and New Labour Britain in particular, finds so seductive? Oh, I know how fertile their think-tank cultur...
Marilyn M. Machlowitz | Posted 12.26.2008 | Living
When my daughter's fencing coach moved to Seattle, I was beside myself. How, I worried, could she explain on her college applications why she stopped fencing senior year?
Kat Cohen | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living
With a record number of students graduating in Spring 2009, combined with a depressed economy, colleges will be flooded with applications.
United Press International | Posted 12.10.2008 | Home
Harvard, Stanford and other top U.S. colleges say they're actively recruiting China's best high school students and offering them full scholarships. ...
Darryle Pollack | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
Bush represented the end of an era; women like me represented the beginning of a new one. I stepped onto the Yale campus only months after Bush left it.
Kat Cohen | Posted 08.25.2008 | Home
So, what will college ultimately cost? You must make yourself aware of even the smallest expenditures (which, when combined, make for one very large e...
Wall Street Journal | Ellen Gamerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
As college-application season enters its most stressful final stretch, parents want to know if their children's schools are delivering the goods -- co...
Bloomberg | Brian Kladko | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Harvard, Yale and Princeton universities' endowments are being accused of backing a loan with 42 percent interest, twice the legal limit, according to...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Professors and administrators at the nation's top colleges are supporting Democratic candidates during the 2008 campaign at a rate higher than the his...
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nytimes.com | CALVIN TRILLIN | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business