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...Likun, 56, has seen nothing of government aid. He, his mother and brothers escaped from their three-story house outside Dujiangyan as it crumbled in the quake. Now they are living on a sidewalk underneath a large red, blue and white plastic tarp. These makeshift tents are everywhere in the city, used by people whose homes were destroyed or who are too scared of the regular aftershocks to spend a night in a building. "Nobody has been here to help us," Fu says...
...aid work is focused on saving lives. But for some it will come too late. The woman outside the hospital said that she heard her father, who is buried in the rubble, respond when she called out his name yesterday. This morning when she called to him again, he said he didn't think he could hold out much longer...
Fitzsimmons pointed to overcrowding as a major source of stress. In addition to making changes to early admission and financial aid, the College announced it would not be accepting transfer students for the next two years, despite receiving more than 1,300 applications for transfer admission...
...incoming freshmen were the first admitted after Harvard abandoned early admissions this year, as well as drastically slashed tuition for upper-middle-income families under a new financial aid policy...
...dramatic changes in early admissions and financial aid meant that last year’s yield equations were rendered obsolete, the admissions office said. To avoid overcrowding the freshman class, 110 fewer students were admitted this year...