New College Try--NYT editorial

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Personally, I favor the idea of two years of college free at state institutions for anyone with a "B" average in High School. But then, I always was a bleeding heart liberal. NYTimes proposal

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Susan Carlin said…
If your proposal had been reality, my life would have been so different. Better, I think. But now that I'm here, I wouldn't have wanted any part of my past to have been altered. Here is good. Very good.
September 25, 2007 at 8:55 AM
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