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...scholarship and cutting edge research to endowment size. In the past, Harvard has often led society down a road of greater acceptance and diversity, from reforming recruiting practices to allowing for open, liberal discourse. Most recently, we have witnessed how Harvard’s decision to dramatically increase financial aid for the middle class has caused multiple other schools to make their education more affordable...
...this phenomenon with its proposed “bridge year” program: an initiative enabling newly admitted students to pursue a year of international public service before delving into the pressures of campus life. Admission to the program would be on a fully need-blind basis, with financial aid offered to those students unable to bear the fiscal burden that a gap year typically entails. The university anticipates that the program will accommodate 100 students, or about 10 percent of the incoming class. While the logistics of the program are not fully flushed out, we applaud Princeton?...
...Sure enough, Vantage Point scored with surprisingly robustness at the wickets, outperforming the predictions of industry analysts and seeming likely to be the weekend's No. 1 attraction. With the aid of film-biz hindsight, we can realize what Barry L. Levy, the film's writer, and its director, Pete Travis, figured out about the assassination genre: (1) that it can easily be fit into a standard action scenario and (2) that the plot can be split six or eight ways, into as many points of view. Each witness to the assassination provides important fragments of the information needed...
...Before the refugees, the population here had lots of problems," the deputy mayor of the town confessed to a group of visiting aid workers and donor representatives. Now, several international aid agencies have set up shop in the town to look after 2,500 Sudanese living in a camp nearby. And, with the aid workers have come some jobs, and a few more trucks carrying food and the odd crate of beer. Civilians who had fled miles into the bush, either escaping conflict or searching for diamonds, have started returning, many hungry and severely malnourished...
...Since independence the governments and the presidents have forgotten about the northeast," says El Hadj Abdullah Yusuf, an elder and one of the biggest traders in the town of 20,000. "If it wasn't for the aid workers there would be no hospital here," he sighs...