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...director of MBA financial aid at HBS, said her school was happy to support such an important initiative and that $5,000 represented an "appropriate amount for the first year of our program."Day said the University's decentralized approach has actually allowed for greater participation in the program among Harvard's various schools, which have different admissions timelines, tuition expenses, and institutional aid budgets."From the beginning we were concerned that if the VA required a one-size fits all approach across the whole campus...you could end up with a more modest level of participation," she said...
...with the nation's young democracy just nine years after Mexico ended seven decades of one-party rule. Like Eastern Europeans, Mexicans hoped that opening up their political system would bring them better-paid jobs and safer streets. Instead, they have seen a wave of kidnappings, daily shoot-outs among drug gunmen and crowds of jobless; this year some analysts predict that the economy will shrink by more than 8%, the worst drop since the Great Depression. (Read about why Mexico's tourist industry seems cursed...
...opponents, but he had muddied his greatest vulnerability - the stagflating Iranian economy. The real jaw dropper, however, was Ahmadinejad's willingness to attack in the most personal terms. He attacked Mousavi for being supported by former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, whom he flatly called corrupt (a widespread belief among reformers and conservatives alike); he attacked Mousavi's wife Zahra Rahnavard, a famous artist and activist, for allegedly getting into college without taking the entrance exam; he attacked Karroubi for taking money from a convicted scam artist...
...question of negotiations harder for Obama, but also easier in some ways. The U.S. President was appropriately cautious after the elections - criticizing the use of violence against the protesters, but not the results of the vote. It seems clear that his Administration will continue to seek negotiations that will, among other things, attempt to increase the transparency of Iran's nuclear program. If the Iranians are smart, they will respond quickly. If they continue to dally, Iran's electoral embarrassment will make it easier for Obama to rally other countries behind a tougher sanctions-and-deterrence plan that will further...
...intimidate Mousavi and his supporters. But while it would almost certainly empty the streets, the "nuclear option" of a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown would be a potentially fatal injury to the regime's sources of legitimacy: its limited but lively democracy and the backing of Shi'ite clergy. Discord among the mullahs is growing, with some senior clerics, like the esteemed house-arrested dissident Ayatullah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, publicly condemning Khamenei's handling of the election and warning ordinary soldiers and police officers that they would "answer to God" for any violence against the people. A crackdown would risk reducing...