1.   Almost all American colleges provide remedial courses.

2.   American college students, blissfully far from home, test the limits of the legal, the sensible, the tasteful.

3.   American colleges and universities are stocking athletic rosters with players from other countries.

4.   Although Yale is unusual among most American colleges in housing the vast majority of its students on campus, it is not alone in experiencing this exodus.

5.   American college athletic rules generally say players who compete on professional teams or accept money beyond expenses are ineligible to play.

6.   American colleges have been experimenting for decades, trying to get the balance right.

7.   American colleges may be irrevocably mortgaged to football real estate.

8.   American colleges in Japan say such reputation problems result from unfair trade practices.

9.   American colleges routinely give those scholarships to foreign swimmers.

10.   Among the latest was an American college student who was assisting a church-sponsored human rights group based in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas.