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...growth of the United States. In the meantime, Harvard should make sure its students beat the odds in the current lottery system. Every year, thousands of international students come to the United States to study at numerous institutions, including Harvard College. According to the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, the Class of 2012 is 17 percent “international;” this includes all students with either exclusively foreign or dual U.S. citizenship. But despite all the institutional advantages conferred by a Harvard diploma, many recent alumni are left out in the cold by University Hall. Harvard?...
...central point each university stressed is its commitment to provide adequate financial aid. Tufts University is planning to either preserve current levels of financial aid or even to increase...
Boston College has announced a 2-percent cut in its non-compensatory budget in order to generate an extra $2.5 million for financial aid, in addition to the $114 million distributed this year, said Boston College Director of Public Affairs Jack Dunn...
...billion. Right now, the developed world spends about $70 billion in foreign aid—$70 billion from the pockets of those in the OECD. The study concludes that wealthy states would receive $51 billion through boosted returns to capital if they allowed this rise in immigration. Furthermore, aid and increased immigration are not necessarily substitutes: They can be coeval. More immigration coupled with aid—albeit less than the $70 billion currently spent—would bring even more gains to the Southern Hemisphere without hurting the OECD. In any case, citizens of developed nations should grasp...
...raids. Since then, dozens of rockets have been fired at Israel, and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have responded with land and air attacks and by halting supplies that were to enter Gaza. Israel has hoped to tighten the screws on Hamas by blocking all but a trickle of aid from reaching Gaza's 1.5 million stricken inhabitants, leading to what U.N. officials describe as a humanitarian crisis. For the past two weeks, the Israeli military has barred foreign journalists from entering the Palestinian territory to report on the siege...