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NYC Students Defend Free Higher Education

After the president of one of the last tuition-free universities in the United States announced that it would begin charging fees for graduate programs, 11 students occupied a campus building to “demand that the school reaffirm its commitment to providing free education” and a revision of the university’s management style.

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Titan Over Wall Street

Perhaps Obama could have scored more popularity points if he had ordered a few financiers to be led out of the Cooper Union auditorium in handcuffs.

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Obama Pitches Financial Reform to Wall Street Execs

President Obama spoke before a group of fat cats—or rather, “titans of industry,” as he called them—from Wall Street on Thursday at Cooper Union in New York City, the same site where he’d delivered his pre-bailout, pre-presidential speech on the economy two years ago, in an attempt ... (continued)

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