For-profit colleges spur dreams and doubts - Houston Chronicle
It has 10,500 students in Houston alone, behind only the University of Houston and UH-Downtown among four-year universities. Other schools are growing rapidly as well, and almost 3 million people are enrolled at a for-profit school. Most are in their

Nicholas D. Kristof: What could you live without? - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
It's a book that, frankly, I'd be nervous about leaving around my own teenage kids But after they downsized, there was much less space to retreat to, so the family members spent more time around each other. "We essentially traded stuff for

Joseph Gerth | Rule it a bad week for the governor - Courier-Journal
FRANKFORT, Ky. — When prosecutors in the Leonard Lawson bid-rigging trial informed U.S. District Judge Karl Forester that Gov. Steve Beshear would be able to get to Lexington Thursday to testify, the wise old judge remarked that Beshear is probably

What's the Matter With the Democrats? Post-Massachusetts Reflections - ZNet
The e-mails are coming in from frightened Europeans. They are shocked by the previously unknown right-wing Republican state senator Scott Brown's stunning victory over the establishment Democrat Marcia Coakley in the open seat election for the

Shamrock Stopper - Salem News
Three letters etched on the helmet of a shooter bearing down on her told Moe Bradley everything she needed to know about her new life as a goaltender for the Boston Shamrocks. It was last July and the Swampscott native was seeing her first Shamrocks