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...Indeed, this help has now been hindered as the World Food Programme confirmed it has had to halt aid shipments after the contents of its first delivery were impounded on arrival in the military-ruled country. The U.N. body says the Burmese government seized tonnes of aid material flown in to help victims of Cyclone Nargis...
...pointed to overcrowding as a major source of stress in a tumultuous admissions season—in addition to changes in financial aid and early admission, the College announced it would not be accepting transfer students for the next two years, despite receiving over 1,300 applications for transfer admission...
Harvard's announcement of its generous new financial aid policy, under which families with incomes below $60,000 pay nothing and families making between $120,000 and $180,000 pay only ten percent, was promptly followed by expansions of financial aid at other schools, including a similar program at Yale. Other peer institutions also sweetened their aid packages by cutting loans and expanding funding...
...changes [at other schools] could well have rendered the financial aid factor a bit of a wash," Fitzsimmons said...
...United States. Even more conservative leaders, such as Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, appeared to side with the leftists leaders, with whom he is normally at odds, in criticizing the values and priorities of the United States. Arias criticized the United States's offer of $1 billion in food aid as insufficient compared to the amount it spends on war in Iraq. "Their actions are wrong because their values are wrong," Arias said...