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Walt White is a study in ordinariness. His mustache is dull and drastically out of date. His wire-rimmed glasses are the bland rectangles of a dedicated square. Even his drab textured sweaters send the message that this is a forgettable man. Like the rest of middle-aged, middle-class America right now, Walt is struggling to make ends meet, teaching high school chemistry and holding down a part-time job at a car wash. Then, as he turns 50, his life goes from slightly depressing to downright awful when he's diagnosed with terminal cancer. .
UVa Aid Policy Gets a Facelift
A year ago, the University of Virginia joined the growing list of selective institutions altering their financial aid policies to make them friendlier to students from low-income families. Now it has decided that it needs to do even more, and do it sooner, than originally planned. .
Bloggers and Twitter
I started tweeting a couple of days ago and am quickly getting addicted. I thought I’d share some of my early impressions of Twitter. Twitter seemed rather pointless to me from the outside. I figured there would be a lot more noise than signal and perhaps if you’re following the general public there is going to be too much noise to wade through. On the other hand if you can use a little discretion when choosing who to follow you’ll find a lot more signal than you might think. I’ve seen a number of posts over the months about Twitter and had signed up sometime awhile back, but a few recent posts convinced me to start tweeting. A Quick Introduction to Twitter for Bloggers 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners 75+ Internet Marketing Gurus on Twitter It was probably the weight of all the posts I’ve seen in recent months, but they all reached a tipping point within the last week.
Internet Gambling Deserves a New Chance
We just don't want him and his offshore card sharks trolling for suckers in our living rooms. Opinions and conclusions expressed in the BusinessWeek Debate Room do not necessarily reflect the views of BusinessWeek, BusinessWeek.com, or The McGraw-Hill Companies. .
Colleges uneasy about Harvard's deal on tuition
Two words to students hoping to get a break on college tuition now that Harvard and a handful of rivals have increased financial aid to middle-class students: Fat chance. Most colleges say they aren't loosening the purse strings just yet, although as financial-aid season approaches they are under intense pressure from parents to offer Harvard-style deals. Ursinus College's enrollment director, Richard DiFeliciantonio, said a parent already had called him to ask: "'If Harvard can do this for their kids, why can't you?' " The answer is obvious: Ursinus, like most colleges, isn't as filthy rich as Harvard, whose endowment of $35 billion is the largest in the nation. "Maybe 30 colleges in the country can even think about doing what Harvard is doing," said DiFeliciantonio, whose school has $150 million in its coffers.
Loan Scandal Escalates
When Andrew M. Cuomo started asking questions about the relationships between lenders and colleges, many in higher education scoffed (off the record) that this was a case of an ambitious politician looking for headlines and that there wasn’t much for his inquiry to find. There’s no doubt that Cuomo, New York State’s new attorney general, is an ambitious politician looking for headlines, but he’s finding more and more to investigate. And some experts on aid are increasingly worried that the scandal is going to scare some students and families away from borrowing or from getting advice from financial aid offices. .
Abordo pins his hopes on big day
He has it in mind that he might have it within himself to push beyond the fate of a small-school lineman. He is, after all, a football player from tiny Mary Star High in San Pedro, a school that doesn't send many players onto any level of college football. Abordo wonders if he can change that. He is realistic and knows he's not going to ever be on anybody NFL's draft chart, but that's OK. His two weeks of practice with players from larger schools around the South Bay in preparation for Saturday's Lions Club All-Star football game has encouraged him and served as an inkling of what levels of football may await him. "I'm not the biggest guy and I know for sure that I'm not the fastest guy," Abordo said. "But I know I'll try to play at the highest level I can. I'll try. I won't give up that easily." Abordo envisions himself one day playing at the Division II level after spending two years playing junior college football locally to increase his strength and skills.
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