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If we had our choice, Sarah Lawrence College would never be listed among America’s “most expensive” higher education institutions. These types of lists understandably generate media coverage, but leave the far more essential question rarely explored in depth: what value does this cost provide?
This is precisely the question that prospective students and their parents should be asking.
To provide an answer relative to Sarah Lawrence College, I want to share details of our price, why we think that investment yields the very best liberal arts education in the world that continues to offer dividends after graduation, and how we help deserving and qualified students attend — regardless of their ability to pay.
First, as with any good or service, higher education costs are in part a function of what goes into the “product.” At Sarah Lawrence College, and as generally true for other selective liberal arts colleges, that includes an outstanding faculty of scholars and researchers, heralded artists and performers, but first and foremost, master teachers. That said, there are very significant differences between us and our peer

As mother of a bride-to-be, I headed to Bergdorf for some high end MOB shopping. Dressed in my best coat with the sable trim – albeit bought in 1996 but definitely not channeling a Lewis and Clark expedition – I approached the Oscar de la Renta department.
Sitting — evidently Elmer-glued to her chair — was the salesperson on the phone. And on the

By day, Alan Greenspan is a mild-mannered Federal Reserve chairman. But by night, he is the masked vigilante known as the Greenspan Hornet. Aided by his faithful oriental chauffeur, Cato Institute, he fights a never-ending battle against government regulation and oversight.
Recently, though (circa October 2008), he has suffered a crisis of faith in the free market system: “Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief.”
After this humiliating public admission, Greenspan withdrew to his Hornet’s Nest and brooded: “What happened to the Invisible Hand of the Marketplace? Why didn’t he intervene?” The Invisible Hand was Greenspan’s superfriend in the Economic Justice League; only Greenspan could see him.
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We cannot allow the acts of a few to shake our nation. Arizona, was not the fault of the right, left, or anywhere in between. In fact, we may never know what truly caused the events of last Saturday. The tragedy in Arizona was despicable, but we cannot overreact or react in a manner unbefitting our free

When you look at spiritual life in an evolutionary context, you cannot see yourself and your own development as separate from the entire cosmic continuum of the life process. And this creates a profound moral context for your own spiritual evolution–a moral imperative to transform yourself. Why? Because you and the process are one.
Think about it–if you are the highest expression, as far as we know, of the leading edge of the entire evolutionary unfolding, then what you do is always a reflection of the process itself. The way in which you engage with the world is a statement about how you see and understand the process that gave life to

As C.S. Lewis says, “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
The Obama administration has found “fragile” but “reversible” progress in its one year assessment of the surge of an addition 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
In a recent VOA report, NATO has also echoed that coalition forces have made significant progress, but confidential

Recent research released by the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at the Center for Philanthropy at Indiana University that revealed American women are more likely to give to charity than men (in most cases twice as much) has been generating big buzz through mainstream and social media (Women Give 2010). For most these stats are eye opening about the role of women in supporting the charitable sector in the United States.
In early December, WPI released new data that show the difference in what types of charities (religious institutions, combined purposes like the United Way, helping the needy, health care/medical research, education, youth and family, arts and culture, community, environment and international) men and women support. Causes Women Support had two major findings:
1.Female-headed households are more likely or as likely to give as male-headed households in every charitable subsector.
Subsector

Head of Household
Female Male
Religious Institutions
35.9% 25.2%
Combined Purposes
20.1% 17.6%
Help Needy

23.4% 19.9%
Health

At the core of the tensions between Turkey and Israel is their disagreement over Iran. Whereas Israel sees Iran as a major existential threat, Turkey, although purporting to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, does not view a nuclear Iran as a direct threat to Turkey or even to the Middle East. From the Israeli perspective, Turkey’s equating Iran’s nuclear ambitions with Israel’s latent program, its seeming embrace of Hamas, its efforts to broker agreements that serve to diffuse pressure on Tehran, and its opposition to international sanctions all demonstrate that Ankara has made a strategic shift toward Israel’s avowed enemy.
The Israelis are convinced that Turkey has paid no heed to their country’s national security concerns in fostering close ties with Iran and its proxies. Turkey’s economic and energy ties with Iran are

It was a relaxed Saturday afternoon, until my neighbor told me the news: A shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona had killed six people and critically injured a congresswoman.
The bullets that went flying shattered more than innocent lives — they splintered the glass bubble that we live in. We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
Several days later, I still can’t stop thinking about Representative Gabrielle Giffords as she is fighting for her life. The dead and wounded are not just numbers — 20 people shot — they are real people: Judge John Roll, a nine-year old girl who was there to learn about politics, a dedicated staff member, and concerned constituents.
It’s easy to conclude that the shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, was just one highly disturbed guy, that this tragedy could have happened anywhere, anytime.
I don’t think

Foodspotting, the San Francisco-based social media site for sharing photos of food dishes, has raised its first venture round of $3 million, according to Liz Gannes at All Things Digital.Last month, we interviewed co-founder Soraya Darabi.

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Spare me the shock. Violent talk inspires murderous rage. Tormented souls are precisely why such incindiary talk is so dangerous. And spare me the smarmy, unctuous statements from the John Boehners and Mitch McConnells and their claqueurs and their

Should schools be compelled to give troubled students mental health support? It’s a chilling and complex question that comes to light as as a patchwork portrait of Tuscon shooter Jared Loughner emerges.
We know that Loughner’s behavior so bothered his classmates and professors at Pima Community College that the school asked him to leave, ordering him to undergo a psychological evaluation. His strange conduct also led to several run-ins with Pima campus police, and prompted one student to vent in an e-mail to a friend that Loughner “scared the living crap” out of her.
So there were warning signs. But according to Columbia University assistant clinical psychiatry professor David Leibow, a school cannot legally force a student into treatment unless he or she poses a threat. Leibow said that, in theory, the campus police who interacted with Loughner could have transported him to an emergency room, where he could have undergone relevant

The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, the young congresswoman from Arizona, must speak to the soul of this nation. The shooter raised his gun to her head, and then he kept shooting until 13 others were wounded and six people killed, including a district court judge and a nine-year-old girl who was president of her student council. Gabby, as everyone calls her, is one of the most beloved political leaders in the Congress and back in her home state of Arizona. Everyone likes her on both sides of the

Freezing rain and sleet have caused power outages, icy roads and school cancellations in the south-eastern US, following a snow storm that struck in the region at the weekend.
As much as 9in (23cm) of snow has blanketed states from Louisiana to North Carolina.
At least three people have died in weather-related car crashes in the area over the past few days.
The winter mix is expected to turn to ice by Tuesday, forecasters said.
“Since it's going to be pretty cold over the next few days, we could see whatever accumulates sticking around for a few days,” National Weather Service meteorologist Daniel Lamb told the Associated Press news

Co-authored by R.J. Ellis
The more we discover about Harriet E. Wilson, the author of the first novel published in the United States by an African-American woman, the more startling her life becomes. Wilson — born a free Negro in Milford, N.H., in the 1820s but doomed to serve a very harsh period as an indentured servant with the white Hayward family — boldly captured the racism that she experienced in New England in her pioneering autobiographical 1859 novel, Our Nig; or, Sketches From the Life of a Free Black.
As Gabrielle Foreman and Kathy Flynn have shown, between 1857 and 1861 Wilson became an enterprising producer and marketer of

I still have John Roll’s card in my old Rolodex, which dates back to 1979. I first met John when I was directing continuing legal education programs for the National College of District Attorneys, an organization that sponsored training seminars for prosecutors. John was one of several dozen lecturers who toured with me around the country; he gave talks on various topics related to the trial of criminal cases to young attorneys — mostly recent law school graduates who had joined the staff of their local prosecutor’s office.
When we met, John was a Deputy County Attorney for Pima County, prosecuting criminal cases, but shortly thereafter, he was appointed to the United States Attorney’s Office in Tucson; the card I have is hand-written, containing both his new office phone number as well as his home phone — because he wanted me to always be able to reach him

America has wandered into a broken wilderness and we find ourselves at the lip of a precipice. If we hew to the path we’re on, we will certainly tumble into it.
The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson was a terrible thing for our nation, and not just because of the grotesque body count. We have been meandering towards something like this for years, lost in a masquerade that we’ve come to regard as political

The gods of Roman mythology had twin obsessions: love and lust. For women, attracting their attention was a dangerous business. Chased by Apollo, Daphne prays for help and is transformed into a tree. To hide his affair with Io, Jupiter zaps the girl into a

“Reflections,” a showcase for seven Russian-trained prima ballerinas debuts at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, California, on 20 January 2011, and then travels to Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater for performances at the end of the month. The show has been in rehearsals in southern California, Berlin, and Moscow.
Mauro Bigonzetti, charming
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Enjoy my Los Angeles Times article on “Reflections.”
I also wrote a shorter piece on the L.A.

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Now that we are well into the first phase of 2011, all sorts of predictions are on the forefront about what is in and what is out. In the world of food, the predictions are pretty, well, predictable from year to year. Healthy foods always make the list of what’s in while fat and salt laden foods continue to get the thumbs down. And well they

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Former US House Republican Leader Tom DeLay has been sentenced to three years in prison on conspiracy charges.
The Texas politician was convicted of conspiring to funnel corporate campaign contributions to legislative races in Texas, in violation of state law.
DeLay resigned as House Majority leader five years ago, after his indictment. A Texas jury found him guilty of money laundering and conspiracy in November.
DeLay has called the case a political