Harvard Says Poor Parents Won't Have to Pay [NYTimes.com]. Good, but true, it is just a posture to the very little percentage of the undergraduate body, maybe a strategy on recruiting students. Nothing fundamental is changed, the higher education in US is a circle used to copy the elite. And more ionic thing is, the students there who supposed to get the most libral education to become free thinkers are those who in root most conservative. And all the beautiful idealism attaching to the higher education just fade in the circles of alumnus. I kind of prefer Germany's system, but nobody can deny the effect of personal $$$ on higher education in the last century. Ha, so there comes the political debate again...