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...Mohamed is alleged to have trained Muslim volunteers in New York to fight in Afghanistan. "Somebody had to know he was coming up here and training people," says Dowell. "This case is going to highlight the need for a hard look at the effect of interagency rivalry and of budget cuts on the state of U.S. intelligence." Convicting Mohamed may depend on being able to prove his involvement in a conspiracy -- after all, simply providing training to Muslim fundamentalists who later turned against the U.S. is a charge that could apply more widely to Washington's Afghan war operation...
This year's changes to the College's aid programs are unprecedented. The scholarship budget has been increased by more than twenty percent to $53 million annually, the entire increase funded by Harvard's resources. The initiatives announced by Dean Knowles in September accomplish precisely what your editorial calls for; substantially lower debt burdens, freedom and flexibility for students to pursue unpaid internships and time-consuming extracurriculars and opportunities for students to focus more on educational experiences and less on finances. If we had relied solely on increases in federal scholarship aid to fund the initiatives they simply would...
Twenty years ago federal scholarship aid, including Pell grants, represented nearly twenty percent of the College's scholarship budget. Today federal scholarship aid accounts for less than six percent of the College's scholarship program. In other words, as the needs of Harvard's scholarship students have risen, the College, not the federal government, has borne the full cost of meeting those increased needs...
During most of this decade the federal government faced substantial cost and budget constraints and Pell grant maximums actually decreased in real dollars, while decreasing even more when measured in constant dollars. From 1990 through 1995, for example, individual students received less Pell Grant assistance each year than they did the previous year--and the College bridged the gap using its own resources. I might gently remind the editors that during this extended period of Pell decreases there were no campus editorials calling for students to receive less scholarship money because of reduced Pell authorizations...
This year's changes to the College's aid programs are unprecedented. The scholarship budget has been increased by more than twenty percent to $53 million annually, the entire increase funded by Harvard's resources. The initiatives announced by Dean Knowles in September accomplish precisely what your editorial calls for; substantially lower debt burdens, freedom and flexibility for students to pursue unpaid internships and time-consuming extracurriculars and opportunities for students to focus more on educational experiences and less on finances. If we had relied solely on increases in federal scholarship aid to fund the initiatives they simply would...