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5 juillet 2014

‘Sudden Death’ at El Mundial

By Ilan Stavans. I love the expression “sudden death.” It refers to a FIFA tie-breaking rule last used in 2002, when South Korea and Japan hosted the World Cup, but most of matches in this year’s El Mundial, as the games are known to Spanish-language viewers of Univision, all felt like sudden death, at least in the round of 16, which concluded Tuesday. (By the way, Univision’s newscast has been far superior to ESPN’s, at least at the level of wordplay.) The Netherlands-Mexico match was a nail-biter (I’m Mexican!), as was Costa Rica vs. Greece. Watching these games is like reading a superb thriller: Tension is high and time seems to stand still. More...

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5 juillet 2014

Bully for Them

By Ben Yagoda. If you’re looking for a great summer read, and you anticipate a summer with a lot of time on your hands, I highly recommend Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully Pulpit. Its 928-page length is to some extent a function of the fact that it covers four separate topics, each of which could have been a book of its own: a brief biography of Theodore Roosevelt, a brief biography of William Howard Taft, a study of the two men’s complicated political and personal friendship, and (the ostensible subject) an account of the two presidents’ relations with muckraking journalists like Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and S.S. McClure. More...

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5 juillet 2014

Prolonged Degree Completion in California Costs Students and State

By Chronicle Staff. Report: “The Real Cost of College: Time & Credits to Degree at California Community Colleges and California State University”
Organization: The Campaign for College Opportunity
Summary: Students who graduated with undergraduate degrees from the California State University system spent a median of 4.7 years to do so and earned 135 credits. Likewise, students who graduated from the state’s community colleges with associate degrees, which traditionally take two years to complete, now routinely take four years. More...

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5 juillet 2014

Some Colleges Cheer Supreme Court’s Ruling on Contraceptive Mandate

By Nick DeSantis. Several religious colleges saw good news in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Monday that the federal government may not compel certain companies to offer health-care plans that include access to contraceptives, if their owners have religious objections to doing so. The court’s decision applies to closely held for-profit corporations, not private religious colleges and other nonprofit organizations. More...

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5 juillet 2014

Education Dept. Unveils New Lists of Most and Least Expensive Colleges

By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Department of Education updated on Monday the information that informs its lists of the most- and least-expensive colleges in the country. It is the fourth time the department has updated the College Affordability and Transparency information, which is used to call attention to colleges that do the best and worst jobs, respectively, at charging affordable tuition and fees. More...

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5 juillet 2014

Bank Linked to Prominent Debit-Card Provider Faces $3.5-Million Fine

By Andy Thomason. The Federal Reserve Board has fined a Chicago-based bank $3.51-million over its partnership with Higher One Holdings Inc., a prominent provider of campus debit cards, according to a news release on the Federal Reserve’s website. More...

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5 juillet 2014

British Regulator Investigates Controversial Facebook Study

By Andy Thomason. A government regulator in Britain will investigate whether Facebook violated data-protection laws by conducting a study that manipulated the emotions of unknowing users, the Financial Times reports. More...

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5 juillet 2014

For-Profit Giant ITT Says It May Face Financial Restrictions

By Andy Thomason. ITT Educational Services Inc. said in a corporate filing on Wednesday that it may face financial restrictions over its failure to file a set of documents with the U.S. Department of Education. A set of financial statements was due to the department by June 30 but was not sent, according to the filing. More...

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5 juillet 2014

How to Measure Imagination

By Tom Bartlett. A couple of days ago I took a walk down a narrow, somewhat perilous mountain trail with Scott Barry Kaufman, scientific director of the Imagination Institute. The trail began near the Aspen Institute’s campus here in this immensely beautiful, immensely wealthy town, where the institute holds its annual ideas festival, a gathering of scientists, artists, corporate executives, and miscellaneous thinkers who mull such topics as the future of smart cities, the future of fatherhood, and the future of robotics. They also enjoy a lot of wine and cheese. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

To Help Rural Students, Provide Them With Campus Jobs

By Shannon Venezia. Despite its name, Washington State Community College is located not in Washington State but in the historic town of Marietta, Ohio. The closest small city is Parkersburg, W.Va. The closest large city is Columbus, Ohio, more than two hours to the northwest. Our beautiful five-building campus sits on 150 acres. Our enrollment is roughly 1,700, and we serve a unique population: rural students. More...

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