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...long ago, amid much fanfare, Summers announced that Harvard would no longer require low-income parents to contribute to college costs. What did not get reported was that low-income students must still borrow sums nearly as large as before. The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative costs the University less than $2 million per year, or six weeks’ pay for one fund manager...
...Thaksin. People have benefited from his policies. There's less unemployment. My sister runs an import-export business and she says it's getting better. At my hotel, there's a woman whose husband is a taxi driver. Thanks to Thaksin, who made it possible for ordinary people to borrow, he finally has the chance to own his own taxi. For years, he paid 500 baht ($13) a day to rent a taxi. Now he is paying off a loan and after four or five years he will own the taxi. My friend says her husband is very happy...
...favor of salaried summer jobs.Director of Financial Aid Sally C. Donahue frames the College’s expected contribution more favorably. “Summer opportunities are really not limited by expected summer income contribution,” she argued, explaining that the expectation that students work or borrow $2,000 is hardly unreasonable, given the generosity of the College’s financial aid program. Asking students to supplement their term-time grants with summer income is, Donahue believes, soliciting an investment in their own futures. “There is a belief on the part of the College...
Would those 4-4 ties cripple the judicial system? They might have the opposite effect. Different jurisdictions could experiment with their own approaches to complicated legal issues. They would be “laboratories of justice,” to borrow University of Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse’s phrase—a phrase derived from Justice Louis Brandeis’ remark that decentralizing government could make the states into “laboratories of democracy.” And as these “laboratories” yield experimental results, their findings might help the Supreme Court...
...stand before you today to present my annual assessment of our great union. Unlike past years, however, I cannot simply use words like “confident” and “strong” to describe the state of our country. We are, if I may borrow from the address that President John F. Kennedy gave from this podium 45 years ago, “in an hour of national peril...