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...already the perfect outsider fable. A Manhattan investment banker raised on Long Island, Milk arrived in San Francisco in the early '70s. He opened Castro Camera in the run-down Castro district, which was fast becoming an enclave for the not-yet-outspoken gay culture. With the aid of an unlikely ally, the Teamsters, he organized a boycott of Coors Beer, which at the time refused to hire gays. After three losing runs for a city supervisor seat, he won in 1977, and a year later he helped defeat Proposition 6, which would have banned gay men and women from...
No� Ram�rez (above), the former head of Mexico's antidrug effort, has been arrested and accused of taking a $450,000 bribe from drug cartels in exchange for tips on narcotics investigations. With $400 million in U.S. aid for the drug war partially contingent on rooting out corruption, high-profile arrests are on the rise...
...bipartisan agreement may have resuscitated legislation that would extend federal student aid to some illegal aliens, according to media reports. “On immigration, there’s been an agreement between [President-elect Barack] Obama and [Senator John] McCain to move forward on that,” Senate Majority leader Harry Reid said in an interview with the Gannett News Service last weekend. Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, has pushed the Senate to enact comprehensive immigration reform in recent years. Last June, amid a fevered debate and nation-wide protests, the Senate failed to pass a massive immigration...
Brown’s financial aid office has been active, implementing measures such as waiving a balance requirement for spring semester pre-registration and increasing the number of counselors available to discuss financial aid options...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Princeton recently scaled back its decade-long, $3.9 billion capital spending plan, slashing the total outlay by $300 million. The $300 million cut will mostly affect construction projects. At the same time, Princeton’s financial aid office plans an additional $3 to $4 million in spending to meet increased student needs...