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The bad news is that your Harvard tuition this year will come to $16,500. The good news is that Harvard experienced its lowest percentage price jump since 1973, and it will cost less to go here than either Princeton or Yale. Other data released in the annual College Board survey stated that Harvard is the sixth most expensive college in the nation. 224 141 12 Bullitt Dies Profesor of English Literature John M. Bullitt '43 died of lung cancer at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He was 64. A specialist in 18th century English literature, Bullitt was widely recognized for his expertise on the satirist Jonathan Swift, as well as for his wide range of talents and sense of humor. His death came just two months after he filed $5 million lawsuits against each of three tobacco manufacturers and a tobacco trade association, charging that the firms employ deceptive advertising to sell their products and do not give adequate health warnings on packages. His wife said that she had not decided whether to continue the suit. 225 140 13 227 138 15 Bee Dung For years the governement has insisted that "yellow rain" in East Asia is evidence of chemical warfare used by the Soviet Union. Not so, says Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences Matthew Meselson. Instead, he charged in a report published in Scientific American magazine, the yellow rain is really nothing more than bee feces. The report, which is likely to kindle further controversy over the issue, showed new evidence to back Meselson's claim. 228 137 16 GMAT Dropped In an unexpected move, the Business School became the first school of its kind in the nation to eliminate the standardized Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) as a requirement for admission. B-School officials said that the standardized tests fail to aid the admissions office in selecting those individuals with "the greatest potential to become outstanding general managers" from the pool of highly talented applicants. 229 136 17 Pay Up Thought you could get away with defaulting unnoticed on your federal student loan? Think again. The U.S. Department of Education announced that they would send letters notifying more than 80,000 students who have defaulted on federal loans that their income tax refunds could be seized to pay off the debt. Twenty-one thousand federally sponsored student loans to Harvard students, totalling $80,000, are outstanding, University officials said.