Toll Brothers says it likely will allow property managers familiar with the student-housing business to help.

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Mr. Ershaghi, the USC professor, visited Beijing last July at his former student's request to lecture Sinopec managers and engineers on shale-gas production.

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The warning shook his audience, which was made up of university managers who have traditionally worked closely with student unions to deliver campus services.

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How can we ask a student to pay more for college before we ask hedge fund managers to stop paying taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries?

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