Let's praise Robert F. Smith, writes Issac Bailey -- and heed the problem his donation to Morehouse students has laid bare: a lone billionaire or a gaggle of billionaires will never be enough to solve our growing student debt crisis.
Over the past 30 years there have been many moments when Taiwan-watchers worked themselves into a tizzy worrying about the potential for conflict in the Taiwan Strait. Until now, though, I have been confident that worst-case thinking was unjustified, and the chances of open conflict were low.
Duke and the University of North Carolina are fierce competitors on the basketball court, but when it comes to medical hiring, they have been cozy collaborators, according to a class action that Duke moved to settle for $54.5 million.
Scandal-plagued University of Southern California has a new president coming in, but many believe the institution can't really change without a true overhaul of its large and quarrelsome Board of Trustees.