tough choices

With gasoline prices hovering at $4 a gallon nationally, many Americans are making tough choices: scaling back summer vacations, driving less or ditching the car altogether.

With gasoline prices hovering at $4 a gallon nationally, many Americans are making tough choices: scaling back summer vacations, driving less or ditching the car altogether.

Some seniors are choosing a tank of gas over their prescriptions.

A polarized political system seems unable to solve problems that involve trust, tough choices and little or no short-term gain.

Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust began her tenure in 2007 when the university's prosperity seeemed limitless.

With its ballooning wealth, Harvard planned almost frenzied growth, from a building boom into Boston to vast increases in financial aid for students.