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...Last year there was so much uncertainty without early admissions and with the new financial aid policy, we were in totally uncharted waters,” said Fitzsimmons. “This year there are fewer variables...but we still wanted to be very conservative...
Seventy percent of Harvard students will receive need-based financial aid next year, with the admissions office projecting $147 million in financial aid expenditures...
...fact that we are in the middle of an unprecedented economic downturn could produce some very interesting effects [on the yield],” said Fitzsimmons. “Sometimes people might feel it’s better to stay close to home, even if financial aid is very good...
Edward Green, the director of the Harvard AIDS Prevention Research Project and senior research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, drew attention last week when he agreed with Pope Benedict XVI’s statement that the answer to the African AIDS crisis lies in the promotion of faithful partnerships rather than increasing the availability of condoms. “I knew that if I agreed with anything the Pope said it would cause a fire-storm,” said Green. “I took the opportunity to cause an uproar and focus on the evidence...
...details of the commitments sought by Obama have not yet been announced publicly, though Obama's team has been working closely with many allies, both in Europe and beyond, to request specific aid. "We are making very specific asks," said Michelle Flournoy, an Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, who has been working on the Afghanistan plan. Obama plans to make a public pitch for international aid both at the NATO summit in Strasbourg on Friday and at the European Union summit in Prague on Saturday...