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...reason to believe their foray into advertising will be successful. “Business owners are really hurting for business, locals aren’t shopping the way they did, and students are certainly feeling the pinch,” Andrew said. With a majority of students on financial aid, Director of Corporate Operations Eduard W. Bogel ’11 said that the student-focused discounts were well-targeted. One feature of the e-mail list will be student liaisons to work with businesses to create particularly student-friendly discounts. “Honestly, you?...
...primary driver.“Students were almost being forced, I think, to go into the private sector because they had such a debt burden when they graduated,” says Douglas A. Levine, who graduated from HKS in 2008.Ellwood has focused extensively on increasing financial aid for HKS students, which he said in a February interview had doubled from an annual total of $11 million when his tenure began in 2004 to a projected $21 million this year.But according to Reitz, research conducted by the Dean’s Committee on Public Service found no strong connection between...
...budget proposal includes an increase in property tax in order to make up for a $8.7 million reduction in state aid to Cambridge. The tax increase comes on the heels of a similar bump last year...
...After the September 11 attacks, the United States sought to forge a closer link to its former Cold War ally, pledging billions of dollars in military aid and equipment to Islamabad. But Pakistan’s anti-Taliban stance did not signal a genuine commitment to change its repressive domestic regime. Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, whom President George W. Bush praised as one of America’s strongest allies in the war on terror, was the fourth military dictator to seize power in that troubled nation’s six decades of existence. Last year, Musharraf was forced...
...While cutting off aid to Pakistan entirely would be a poor decision given the critical situation on the ground, it is important for the United States to reconsider its current policy of unconditional aid to the Pakistani government. In the 1980s, the George H.W. Bush administration wisely imposed arms-export controls on Islamabad, ending the export of nuclear-capable F-16 fighter jets when confronted with evidence of Pakistan’s underground nuclear program. These restraints were tightened on President Clinton’s watch when Pakistan exploded its first nuclear bomb in May 1998. But, after the Musharraf...