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...hornet's nest but wasn't ready for the hornets - and point out that the Mexican army is not particularly well trained for the urban-guerrilla nature of drug wars. Either way, by last year Washington had become alarmed at Mexico's slaughter: Congress approved $400 million in aid for Mexico's drug war, the first installment of what is supposed to be a three-year, $1.5 billion package known as the Mérida Initiative...
Over the past few months, university presidents have pledged in succession to up spending on financial aid, anticipating greater need from both current and prospective students...
Harvard College plans to increase the amount of financial aid dollars for next year by 18 percent—a figure exceeding even the Financial Aid Office’s earlier expectations. Other institutions including Princeton, Dartmouth, and Cornell will also see double-digit percentage increases in the amount of aid distributed...
...increased support for financial aid programs at the various universities will be funded partially by modest tuition hikes hovering around the 3 percent mark, as most administrators are hesitant to further burden families from across the socioeconomic spectrum who feel the recession’s pinch...
Because a significant chunk of funding for financial aid initiatives comes from university endowments—all of which have been crippled by volatile markets in past months—university leaders have been forced to scale back on other endeavors funded by endowment money...