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While Harvard recently made waves by expanding its financial aid program to include families who make up to $180,000 per year, its rivals have also taken steps to contain costs for students not receiving financial assistance...
...Overseers and President Drew G. Faust spoke with seven Undergraduate Council (UC) delegates in Loeb House on Saturday to discuss issues surrounding student life. According to UC members present at the meeting, the conversation covered issues as diverse as faculty-student relations, teaching quality, mental health, housing, financial aid, and social life. “We had a more theoretical discussion about the college and what it means to go here,” UC President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 said. The Board of Overseers, which comprises 30 graduates of the University elected by their fellow alumni...
...violence. N'Djamena's main business street, the avenue Charles de Gaulle, was littered with destroyed cars, burned corpses, and the detritus of trees cut down by flurries of machine gun and rocket fire, according to eyewitnesses. Although initial reports described fighting limited to rebel and government forces, French aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières said it had seen hundreds of wounded people, the vast majority of them civilians. Many of those will wind up dying, the group warned, for lack of available medical care...
...driven in part by the incredible imbalance between supply and demand for legal organs. The Indian government banned the sale of kidneys for commercial gain in 1994; lawbreakers can be jailed for up to five years. But legal organ donations remain rare in India. The Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN), a Chennai-based non-government group that promotes legal organ donation, puts donation rates in India at well under 1 per million, compared to rates of more than 20 per million in places such as Spain, the U.S. and France. The group's head Dr Sunil Shroff rejects...
...comments made by Jeremy R. Knowles—dean of the Faculty from 1991 to 2002, and again from April to July 2007—about increases in financial aid during his own administration were a defense of both prior faculties as well as prior deans...