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...government seal of approval that tilts the playing field in their favor when it comes to borrowing. That leaves Canada's big banks, including Scotiabank, TD Bank Financial Group, RBC Royal Bank and CIBC, at a competitive disadvantage. So the government acted to level the field, not to aid troubled banks. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Transition Network's Gray suggests more localized health-care efforts, including networks of trained medical workers, educational programs teaching nutrition, first-aid and self-care, and expert-patient teaching opportunities. She proposes that by increasing insurance coverage of so-called alternative medicine - including low-energy practices like acupuncture, homeopathy, nutritionists and herbalists - more patients might seek greener care...
Faust emphasized several times that despite tough economic times, the University will maintain current levels of funding for financial aid...
Last spring, the University rolled out a series of financial aid expansions, including ones at the College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Medical School—initiatives University officials billed as Harvard’s commitment to student need. Families making less than $60,000 annually do not shoulder the burden of tuition at the College, and those earning up to $180,000 pay no more than 10 percent of their income...
...Summers applied the same approach of intellectual provocation throughout his stewardship of the University, and with great success. Under his leadership, Harvard’s endowment continued to flourish, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences commenced a full review of the obsolete Core Curriculum, and the revolutionary Harvard Financial Aid Initiative was conceived. Above all, Summers restored the University’s focus on the undergraduate community, a major shift in culture and policy that continues to benefit undergraduates today. It would be a mistake to allow all that Summers achieved for Harvard to be diminished by his presidency?...