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Less than a week after Smith told The Crimson in an interview that, aside from financial aid programs, “nothing is off the table” in dealing with budgetary deficits, concerns arose over faculty hires, promotions, and searches...
...they were leaving. Ryan and four others were killed; Reiterman himself was wounded. The shootings were just the beginning of the carnage. Later that day more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple died in a mass suicide ceremony, most after they lined up to drink poisoned Flavor Aid. (See pictures of Jonestown...
...Nothing is off the table right now, except that we’re maintaining our commitment to our financial aid program,” Smith said...
...first visit to the White House, President-elect Barack Obama asked President George W. Bush to support giving some aid to the tanking auto industry but was rebuffed. A month ago, the proposal might have received serious consideration, but the atmosphere inside the Administration has changed now that the most dangerous part of the crisis appears to have passed. "There wasn't much of a debate" among Bush's top economic advisers about using part of the bailout money to help automakers, says a senior Treasury Department official. Of the first $350 billion released by Congress last month under...
...international community that came to the aid of the school victims, just as they did the storm victims. After the hurricane, overseas volunteers helped clear roads, reconstruct bridges, and flew in to distribute much needed supplies. But hundreds of thousands of people live in remote areas that are inaccessible with even the sturdiest of four-wheel drive vehicles. There are only 2,400 miles of road in Haiti, which is the size of Maryland; and of those roads, just 600 miles are paved. There are also only 10,000 doctors, most of whom are located in the urban centers...