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...Like DormAid, GradeFund has arrived amid raised eyebrows. Isn't it supporting the wealthiest students rather than the neediest? (Kopko says a range of students are signing up.) Couldn't students use the money to just buy pizza? (Donors can have checks sent to the tuition office rather than directly to the student.) And won't it encourage students to obsess even more about grades? Kopko isn't worried. "So far, the closest thing I've gotten to a critique was an administrator at Adelphi University who posed the question, "Might this increase the incentives for cheating?'" he says...
...economic considerations: avoiding massive job layoffs vs. throwing money at possibly doomed companies. But a bailout would have major reverberations abroad as well. Though a bailout may not be the blatant protectionism of the 1930s tariffs introduced by the Smoot-Hawley Act, Europeans warn that a rescue of Detroit amid a major global slowdown could be the first shot in a new trade...
...Rafferty paints the Crimson as a motley crew of scrappy underdogs overmatched by the Bulldogs despite both teams entering the game undefeated. Most of the former Harvard athletes interviewed come from blue collar backgrounds and some are the first in their families to make it past high school. Amid the turmoil of Vietnam, the Crimson features players both for and against the war—and one, Pat Conway ’69, who fought in it—that put their differences aside in the spirit of team unity...
...ones in the three-day terrorist attacks last week. The marchers were expressing their defiance in the face of those who had come to kill, and also their anger at the authorities for failing to protect their city and anger at the leaders seeking political advantage from the tragedy. Amid the mounting outrage at the authorities, the central government's Home Minister, Shivraj Patil - already under pressure in the wake of previous attacks - resigned, claiming moral responsibility for the attacks...
...Mediterranean tuna trade earns millions in tax revenues for Europe and employs thousands of Spanish and Italian fishermen, whose livelihoods have been pummeled by declining stocks in recent years. The specter of further job losses amid a global economic downturn has militated against European officials pressing for sharper cuts in bluefin-fishing. "None of the [fisheries] commissioners want to come back home and say, 'I have saved bluefin tuna but I have ruined my fishing industry'," says Fonteneau, who estimates that fishermen make as much in one month selling high-priced bluefin tuna as they do during an entire year...