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Online escort service provides trade-off for customers
In any other circumstance, she would have pounced on the chance to spend a weekend at Hotel Duval, one of Tallahassee’s most luxurious. She would have paused to admire the lobby’s contemporary decor, with its low-slung leather lounge chairs and cascading chandeliers.
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Editorial: For-profit or For-loss?
The evidence against for-profit colleges has been piling up for months, and it is disheartening that all the federal government has offered in response is pontification and paper.
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Pell Grant financing secure until March
Federal funding for Pell Grants — the most substantial financial aid program for college students — will remain intact through March 4 under a measure passed by Congress Tuesday night, staying worries among college administrators that a stopgap financing bill would expire.
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Study smarter to save
Finals are a very stressful time for most students. Not only are there more exams than we want to think about clustered together, but it is also the end of the semester, which means packing, tying up loose ends and saying some difficult good byes.
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For-profit colleges take fire from students, government
“It was the first college that came to our school,” Austin said. The rep made her pitch to the students and caught the 19-year-old’s attention right away. Austin knew school was going to be expensive — more than $30,000 a year at AI.
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Christmas spending cut down for many American families
Santa Claus is coming to town, but his reindeer may have a lighter load to carry on Christmas Eve than in previous years. According to a Gallup poll released Nov.
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Column: Don’t be fooled by advertising and its deceptions
When it comes to advertising, companies will say pretty much anything when selling their product. Commercials are filled with so many false promises and fake guarantees that you can’t let these “great deals” pull you into buying something that’s really not worth it in the end.
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Pell Grant cuts could impact millions of students
About 9 million students nationwide and 70,000 students within the U. California system could face cuts to their federal Pell Grant awards as the program faces a $5.7 billion funding shortfall. The program - which aids almost 40 percent of U.
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Column: Holiday season needs to be about people, not consumerism
If there's one thing I've learned from my time working in retail, it's this: Santa Claus is the anti-Christ. While many students were at home spending Thanksgiving with their families, I was still in Lincoln, 400 miles from home.
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