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...remains largely unknown, since roads are blocked and telephone lines are down. In a frightening glimpse of the storm's destructive power, the country's state media reported that in the delta town of Bogalay alone, 10,000 people had been killed. Infrastructure has been heavily damaged, with some aid workers reporting it could be months before the electrical grid and water supply in affected areas are restored...
...dozens of monk-led demonstrators last September was seen as doing little to address the country's worst weather calamity in living memory. Faced with such monumental devastation, the junta has said it would welcome foreign help. On May 6, President George W. Bush pledged $3.25 million in emergency aid to a country normally cut off from American largesse by sanctions motivated by the Burmese regime's human-rights record...
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, William R. Fitzsimmons '67, who has seen over three decades of admitted classes, described this admissions cycle as the "most unusual and most unpredictable in my admissions career...
This year was Harvard's first since abandoning early admissions, and the incoming freshmen are the first admitted under the College's new financial aid policy, which drastically slashes costs for upper-middle-income families...
...admissions office will be accepting anywhere from 150 to about 175 students off the waitlist starting tomorrow, with the bulk of waitlist decisions made by the end of this month. At this point, 55 percent of the confirmed members of the Class of 2012 will be on financial aid, up from 49 percent of the current freshman class...