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Students on financial aid at Harvard are expected to spend less than $2,750 a year on living expenses—and it costs about half of that to pay for a year’s worth of books. Even worse is that it requires a substantial amount of money, a lump sum of over $600 at the beginning of each semester, to buy books for classes...
...step toward treating high book costs like the academic impediment that they are. C-CAP would grant stipends to low-income students for their course books. However, in a fall meeting with student representatives from the Undergraduate Council (UC) and the Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) Campaign, a financial aid officer said that the administration was hesitant to take on something like C-CAP for fear of giving donors the impression that Harvard students don’t have enough money for books...
...urge our governments to work with the private sector and citizens' groups to win the fight against malaria during this decade. President Bush recently took a good step in scaling up the U.S. government's malaria-control efforts, but much more needs to be done to ensure that aid reaches the hundreds of millions of Africans at risk...
...number 85,000 in a nation of 60 million, although some put the number closer to 150,000 - say that isn't enough, and vow to remain in their canal encampment until they have shaped public opinion in support of long-term remedial action. Temporary shelters and emergency aid, they argue, are but a temporary solution that will eventually leave the homeless back on the streets. Instead, experts say state funding would be better spent creating or requisitioning subsidized housing for the homeless, offering a base of stability from which they can reintegrate into society. Successful case histories have shown...
...Cartee and other U.S. officers don't blame Hamed for thinking of forming a militia, even though the prospect presents huge problems for them. Any fighters who come to Hamed's aid are likely to include Sunni militants with some degree of affinity for al-Qaeda in Iraq or the insurgency. Hamed acknowledges as much, and he tells Cartee again and again that he'd hate to end up on the wrong side of the Americans. But time is running out, and few other options remain as long as U.S. forces are unable to quell the sectarian violence overwhelming...