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...income students. The announcement that general need-based scholarship funding will increase by 6.2 percent this fall is also welcome news. The leap is a bigger one than that of previous years—in 2005, scholarship funding rose 5.8 percent—and will help soften the blow of higher tuition. We are heartened by the words of Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, who said last spring that his office is evaluating how to make attending Harvard more affordable for families of incomes between $100,000 and $200,000. Many of these families?...
Wilson delivered the crowning blow in the seventh, overwhelming the Big Red and pitcher Jim Hyland with a three-run blast. The home run put Harvard up for good and concluded the team’s day-long, two-game offensive romp...
...chair of the Undergraduate Council’s Student Affairs Committee, Ryan A. Petersen ’08, called the absence of students on the selection committee “a blow to the legitimacy of the process” in an e-mail last night...
...Beiteinu that championed the neglected but sizeable Sephardic and Russian communities. The Pensioners Party, whose sole platform was to improve benefits for elderly Israelis, was the surprise of the elections, garnering eight seats. All these factors coalesced to deal the once-dominant right-wing Likud party a resounding blow. Led by ex-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud scraped together only 11 seats. Netanyahu's harsh budget cuts in the mid-1990s are remembered in fury by many Israelis who sought revenge in these polls...
...worst blow came last September, when Yushchenko and Tymoshenko traded accusations of betrayal of the Orange revolution. The entire Orange administration imploded within a couple of days: Yushchenko fired Tymoshenko, and then fired his lieutenants who were most involved in the war of words with...