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...President. Giuliani draws high levels of support among G.O.P. voters who are most concerned about national-security issues, and that describes almost half of Republicans nationally. For those voters, the New Yorker's experience during 9/11 and his foreign policy rhetoric trump any concerns about his character and background...
...When I first came to Harvard, I thought people would be friends regardless of economic background, but my social circle ended up being a lot of HFAI students or students on financial aid,” says Juan S. Arias ’09, a recipient of HFAI...
...perhaps building a diverse student body is enough. “Forcing people to make friends from a different socioeconomic background is, at best laughable,” Conti-Brown, now a student at Stanford Law School, points out. “All that can be done is to continue admitting a critical mass of students, increasing the diversity of the student body [so] that, hopefully diverse friendships can form naturally...
...while some students are all-too-aware of the problems that coming from an economically-disadvantaged background can bring, others don’t see their economic situation as an issue...
...differing views on how financial background plays into the Harvard experience is what makes the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid so reluctant to push to move beyond offering mainly economic aid to students. Assuming that financial aid students need help in forms other than the economic, such as programs that facilitate social interactions, can actually hamper whether students on HFAI feel comfortable at Harvard...