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...Mass.) to support the legislation. Day called the new law “the right step towards the advancement of education in the United States, and a bill solely drafted to help students in need.” The bill, known as the College Cost Reduction and Access Act, passed with significant bipartisan support. To pay for the increases in aid, the $20 billion previously earmarked for private banks and lenders will be redirected toward federal grants and subsidized loans. Some advocates for the lending industry have criticized the legislation, arguing that it would drive up interest rates for students...
...students of existing volunteer opportunities. Organizers said they hope to make it an annual event and eventually an international one involving alumni clubs around the world. During the breakfast, Faust took the opportunity to remind students of the obligations conferred upon them. At Harvard, “we have access to the greatest minds of our generation, we get to engage with the subjects that most interest us—we have the world, in a sense, at our feet,” she said. “But with these enormous assets also come enormous responsibilities...
Like China, power-hungry India is also keen on exploiting Burma's huge oil and gas resources. This month it signed a production deal for three deep-water exploration blocks off the Rakhine coast. It is also searching for gas in two other blocks. Access to Burma's resources will help boost India's power supplies but it is important for geopolitical reasons as well. The new production deal comes only months after Beijing beat Delhi on securing a deal to build a pipeline through to Burma's gas fields. The race for resources has helped make Burma the frontline...
...possibility that terrorists could steal nuclear materials remains a “real and urgent danger” despite the significant progress that has been made to restrict access to those materials, according to a report released Wednesday by the “Managing the Atom” project at the Kennedy School of Government. The report says that the essential ingredients needed to make nuclear weapons exist in over 40 countries and that terrorists are actively pursuing these dangerous materials. “The threat of nuclear terrorism is a continuing one,” said Matthew Bunn, author...
Instead, Blum invited Summers to address the Regents in private, without the opportunity for any meaningful public scrutiny or debate. The plan was apparently to honor Summers as an “expert” on higher education by giving him privileged access to the governing body of one of the world’s premier public educational institutions...