Word: aide
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...search of individuality, admissions offices are employing ever-new methods to aid in explaining the particular qualities inherent to a college. Recently, videos has emerged as the favored way to reach this goal. But videos can also expose similarities, which can, to some degree, actually work against the purpose of underlining the differences of a college that would make a prospective student decide upon that institution over another. For example, when the infamous “That’s Why I Chose Yale...” video was released, I heard many Harvard students mention...
...parents, generous donors, or some combination of the preceding are currently shelling out $11,000 for your annual room and board fees. That’s enough to cover the cost of an apartment and groceries, even if you have to budget. If you’re on financial aid, you get reimbursed proportionally to your package...
...response to the new outreach initiative directed toward LGBT-identified applicants at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 emphasized Harvard’s commitment to providing information to concerned applicants without invading students’ privacy...
...catapult the poor, lawless region into the 21st century, creating schools and jobs and repairing the battered civil society. But because of fears that there were no safeguards to keep corrupt officials from siphoning off the funds, and because much of the region has been off-limits to aid workers due to militancy, only a tenth of that amount has been spent. Nor can aid wait: the U.N. reckons that over 1.63 million people fled when bullets started flying between the Pakistani Taliban and the army. Their lives need to be rebuilt before they too start blaming Islamabad...
Quietly, U.S. diplomats, aid workers and military trainers have been working in the frontier tribal areas with the army and whatever brave tribal maliks they can find. The idea, say Pakistani military officials, is to identify fast projects - small dams or marble quarries, for example - and get them built and working under the protection of those tribes that will benefit directly. Only this way, say officials, can the tribes turn away from the militant-run enterprises - banditry and running guns and drugs - that earn them money...