At Stanford, organizational and management skills are crucial. With a staff of more than 50 people, she says she's also called upon to be a leader, diplomat and spokeswoman, among other things. I support and applaud the college's decision to drop its football program. The World Wide Web brings the library right into students' homes, giving them instant access to the research and knowledge of thousands of experts. Parents often explore Web sites on the Internet along with their children and closely supervise their children's use of the World Wide Web.
Students can also visit chat rooms to solve problems with other students.
A little over a decade ago, the Justice Department discovered that two dozen or so elite colleges in the Northeast were meeting every year, apparently to coordinate the financial aid packages they offered to students. Since then the individual schools have been making aid decisions without that input. A Harvard economics professor, Caroline M. Hoxby, has taken a look at those questions, along with some others, and in a recently published report she finds that in the wake of the antitrust suit there were significant changes in aid offers, but not necessarily the ones the Justice Department suit would have predicted. No. 3, Vol. FANS OF the cult US sitcom Ally McBeal will reckon they know a thing or two about legal practice in Boston.