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...shelters made of palmyra thatch and corrugated iron, while single folk make do with tents. They are kept behind barbed wire near a road lined with baobab trees and bunkers and are under the constant guard of soldiers. "They are suspected because they come from the Vanni," says an aid official. "They could be LTTE...
...they leave, what will happen to them? The fate of Sri Lanka's IDPs is the central political issue that will face the nation when the army claims victory. "It's how the whole world will look at the country," says an official with an international aid agency. In the best case, the camps, under the monitoring eye of U.N. agencies, will be used as holding stations where the army can weed out any LTTE fighters who remain in hiding, before allowing civilians to return to the Vanni to rebuild the north. "In the worst-case scenario, they establish concentration...
...about receiving more funding, and that she hoped that the BMC would be “paid more fairly” for the services it provides. On the state level, Massachusetts will benefit from funding for infrastructure improvements, including $300 million for mass transit; affordable housing projects; and education aid. In addition, the stimulus package will provide residents with tax cuts, low-income housing, medical care, and education funding. The plan also may create or save an estimated 79,000 jobs in the state, according to a report released earlier this week by the Obama administration. –Staff...
...total tuition package including room and board will reach $48,868 from this year’s $47,215. Financial aid assistance is expected to increase 18 percent from $125 million in total financial aid output in 2008-2009 to a record $147 million...
...projected expansion in financial aid is a response to both a five percent increase in the number of financial aid applicants in the class of 2013 and the likely greater need of current Harvard students affected by the economic downturn, said Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67. This year, 78 percent of applicants to the class of 2013 applied for financial aid...