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The 650,000 jobs created or saved by the stimulus package so far make up only a small step toward correcting the gap between the tens of millions of unemployed people and the few openings that those people are fighting over.
Last autumn I took time off to go back to school. The timing turned out to be just right: My American economic history course at the University of California at Berkeley got to the Great Depression in early October, around the time everyone became convinced we were about to have another one.
When it comes to college investing, Harvard and Yale's endowments are powerhouses. Yale has posted a 12% annualized return over the last 10 years, and Harvard has returned 9% (versus 1.4% for an indexed stock-and-bond fund).
Harvard University, one of America's premiere academic institutions, is coming under fire for running an advertisement in its campus newspaper questioning the reality of the Holocaust.
Emma Watson may have wanted to just blend in when she started her freshman year recently at Brown University, but it seems not everyone has the same idea.
Harvard has never won an Ivy League title and hasn't made the NCAA tournament since 1946 for a simple reason: a lack of talent. Asked to name the last elite high school prospect to choose the Crimson, an athletic department spokesperson had to go back to Jim Fitzsimmons, Harvard class of '74.
Look out Rhode Island, the Harry Potter star has worked her magic to get into Brown
Sixteen years ago, after I wrote a memoir about my experience as a Latino in the Ivy League, I got a call from a retired Jewish obstetrician who saw his reflection in my words.
HEWLETT HARBOR, N.Y. -- When Cornell midfielder Max Seibald returned home from sleep-away camp in the summer of 1994, his father, Jack, asked him what he wanted for his upcoming birthday.
Football Insiders: Check out Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback.
The 650,000 jobs created or saved by the stimulus package so far make up only a small step toward correcting the gap between the tens of millions of unemployed people and the few openings that those people are fighting over.
Last autumn I took time off to go back to school. The timing turned out to be just right: My American economic history course at the University of California at Berkeley got to the Great Depression in early October, around the time everyone became convinced we were about to have another one.
When it comes to college investing, Harvard and Yale's endowments are powerhouses. Yale has posted a 12% annualized return over the last 10 years, and Harvard has returned 9% (versus 1.4% for an indexed stock-and-bond fund).
Harvard University, one of America's premiere academic institutions, is coming under fire for running an advertisement in its campus newspaper questioning the reality of the Holocaust.
Emma Watson may have wanted to just blend in when she started her freshman year recently at Brown University, but it seems not everyone has the same idea.
Harvard has never won an Ivy League title and hasn't made the NCAA tournament since 1946 for a simple reason: a lack of talent. Asked to name the last elite high school prospect to choose the Crimson, an athletic department spokesperson had to go back to Jim Fitzsimmons, Harvard class of '74.
Look out Rhode Island, the Harry Potter star has worked her magic to get into Brown
Sixteen years ago, after I wrote a memoir about my experience as a Latino in the Ivy League, I got a call from a retired Jewish obstetrician who saw his reflection in my words.
HEWLETT HARBOR, N.Y. -- When Cornell midfielder Max Seibald returned home from sleep-away camp in the summer of 1994, his father, Jack, asked him what he wanted for his upcoming birthday.
With the retirement of Justice David Souter, President Obama has the opportunity to bring a special kind of diversity to the Supreme Court: the diversity of broad and varied governmental experience.
My Rolls-Royce is a lot more expensive than your Buick. A pint of Ben & Jerry's costs double the A&P generic brand. That makes sense. But when it comes to college tuition, the difference between the Harvards and the Podunks is not nearly so great.
After 124 editions, the most unsavory thing about The Game's current seat in the shadow of block-letter acronyms -- BCS! FBS! FCS! -- is not even the shadow itself. The self-inflicted lack of playoffs? The ban on scholarships? The harshest academic restrictions in the athletic universe? These realities are simply the known price of scholastic integrity, which has long numbed Harvardians and Yalies to the gradual lowercasing of the nation's oldest rivalry.
Harvard and other Élite colleges are increasing aid to poor students. But can less wealthy schools compete?
Some of the nation's top football factories wanted Jonathan Meyers. Michigan offered him a scholarship. So did Oklahoma. And UCLA. And Florida, among dozens of others. The Greenwich (Conn.) High fullback/linebacker knew the choice would be difficult. And after taking an official visit to Florida in November, where he watched the Gators hammer Florida State, Meyers figured he'd follow in his father's footsteps -- Glenn Meyers lettered at nose tackle at Florida from 1980-82 -- and head to Gainesville.
When St. Mary's coach Randy Bennett took his team on a tour of Australia three summers ago, he wanted to try out guard Todd Golden at the point. And while the Gaels fared well, Bennett watched his new front man get schooled by a 16 year old on the Australian team.
So here we are, with almost two months elapsed since college coaches were banned from sending text messages to high school athletes, and as far as I can tell, the world of recruiting has not come crashing down. The folks who argued against the ban wanted us to believe they could not conduct their business without a communications tool that didn't even exist until a few years ago -- not surprisingly, those concerns have proven to be unfounded.
Dear Annie: I never expected to find myself asking you for advice, but I'm really stuck. I was an 'A' student in college and always found ways to stand out from the crowd (captain of the lacrosse team, etc.) at the Ivy League school I attended.
One quick headline, then the topic of the week:
Personal assistants are often stuck with strange, thankless tasks, like fielding calls from a nagging mother-in-law, or approaching a handsome stranger on behalf of an employer looking for a date.
We don't know what Eddie Lowery or Rodney Dangerfield or Byron Nelson thought about the game in the gathering darkness, but we do know what Tom Hearn thought. He was an insurance man and a duffer, and John Updike would have put him in his novels had he ever known him. Tom Hearn spent a day when his days were numbered assessing how golf fit into the last 66 years of his life, the freckled early ones and the speckled ones at the close.
Kirsten Teevens thought she was done with this two years ago. Her husband, Buddy, had woken up one day and decided that instead of traveling with Kirsten and their two kids to a vacation in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, he'd bike there. From Hanover, N.H.
The NCAA has spent considerable time and resources the past few years attempting to convince us it's no longer the stuffy, bloated, ivory-tower bureaucracy of old. It claims to be more in touch with the issues facing its members today.
Text messaging is as much a part of recruiting as official visits.
It's March. And you know what that means. For many Americans the world will stop and the only thing that will matter to them is what their brackets look like in their college basketball office pools.
While reading through yet another brilliant article written by Pete Thamel in the New York Times, I was struck by a brief item that appeared in Pete's college basketball spotlight column on Sunday. The item contained a quote from Brown coach Craig Robinson (aka Barack Obama's brother-in-law) indicating a postseason tournament in the Ivy League may be in the offing. "It's closer than I would have ever imagined it," Robinson said.
The award for national coach of the year is perhaps the worst-defined honor in sports. Do you select only guys whose teams have exceeded expectations? After all, the writers who dole out these awards are same dolts who set those expectations in the first place. Congrats, coach, for showing everyone how dumb we really are!
I don't know why it took 28 years for the Montreal Canadiens to retire Ken Dryden's number 29. But since it did, it now occurs to me that many younger hockey fans -- and players, too -- may not appreciate just how great he was.
When Mike Dunleavy was traded from Golden State to Indiana, many believed he would quickly be shipped back to the West Coast to play for his father, Mike Sr., with the Clippers. Two weeks have passed and Dunleavy appears to be sticking with the Pacers.
A new golden era is dawning in West Coast college hoops, and the 'Bag couldn't be happier.
Every year, Fortune sponsors a conference of women, chiefly from business, but also from politics, culture and charity - 300-plus of the most formidable females around.
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My girlfriend is researching graduate schools, and they range from our fine state university at $6,000 a year to a New England near-Ivy League school at $40,000. Can the $40,000-a-year school really provide an education that will offer job opportunities lucrative enough to offset its higher cost? Or should she just go with the $6,000-a-year school?
Stem cell science may be advancing, but not fast or far enough to break the standoff between President Bush and Congress over federal funding for research that destroys human embryos.
College acceptance letters are coming soon to a mailbox near you. In other words, it's about that time when parents and students begin to get nervous about the final step to the college application process: financial aid.
It's that time of year again, when parents and students are anxiously waiting to hear from colleges. Well, most won't hear until April.
A new study of Spanish flu, which killed millions of people in the aftermath of World War One, has provided fresh hope that the spread of a similarly deadly virus could be stopped if it occurred today.
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Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick was sentenced to 30 days in jail after being convicted last week on charges related to a party with underage girls.
In an unprecedented sweep, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" set an Oscar record by winning all 11 awards for which it had been nominated, including best picture of the year.
Are you hoping little Tiffany is Ivy League material? Although there's no guarantee of admission, now you can at least make sure you can afford part of the bill. Set to launch in July, TIAA-CREF's ...
Like all great business ideas, Tom Stemberg's makes you wonder why nobody had ever thought of it before. A supermarket for office supplies--why, smack my forehead! But great ideas are products of t...
Bettors wager somewhere between $80 billion and $380 billion a year on sports. Nearly all of that is bet illegally, but legitimate outfits also benefit. Example: Wayne Allyn Root, 41, the self-proc...
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