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...significant bump to interest in and attendance at its games. Nor will Beckham be alone among waning stars in crossing the Atlantic: His deal was made possible by change in MLS rules to allow each team to sign one player outside of the limits of an existing salary cap that prevented Americans teams from offering rewards that would tempt many European stars...
...Gungzhou, China, to play in the Four Nations Tournament. The United States, ranked second internationally, will kick off tournament play on January 26 against top-ranked Germany. It will also play 12th-ranked England and ninth-ranked host China over the next four days. With 153 “caps,” Markgraf reports to camp as the most experienced member of this year’s national team. In her eight-year career representing the U.S., Markgraf has appeared in 146 games, starting 137. What’s more, she has played for the U.S. in two Women?...
There are important initiatives that will help defray the costs of coursework, like putting needlessly expensive coursepacks online, and giving students the tools to purchase the cheapest books at locations other than the COOP. But it’s only an initiative like C-CAP that is going to assist the students dealing with the worst financial hardship, some of whom use their work-study money not just for themselves but to send home to their families...
...only about $100,000 from private donors and the FAO on an annual basis, C-CAP can provide $125 stipends for students whose families make under $40,000 a year and $75 stipends for students whose families make under $60,000 a year, affecting almost one-sixth of the Harvard undergraduate student population. These stipends aren’t enough, but they are a big step in the right direction. Their delivery to students will finally demonstrate the treatment of books as an academic necessity, rather than us just another undergraduate commodity...
...CAP isn’t just a dream concocted by naïve students. Thanks to the leadership of Chaz M. Beasley ‘08 and Amadi P. Anene ’08, almost all the logistical barriers in C-CAP’s implementation have been removed. After a careful study, they came up with the best possible program to tackle the problem of high book costs in the form of stipends for low-income students. They have found a way to implement it that insures the discretion of these students. They have even secured a good deal...