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Several solutions have been proposed as a way to resolve this embarrassment, but the Course-Cost Assistance Program (C-CAP) is the best step toward treating high book costs like the academic impediment that they are. C-CAP would grant stipends to low-income students for their course books. However, in a fall meeting with student representatives from the Undergraduate Council (UC) and the Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) Campaign, a financial aid officer said that the administration was hesitant to take on something like C-CAP for fear of giving donors the impression that Harvard students don?...
...about some lunch," said McClung, popping her brown eyes wide open as she flashed me a big smile. It was an obvious effort to cheer me up, and I gratefully accepted. McClung put a cap over her straight red hair and led me to the chow hall. As we sat down to eat, she gave me an overview of the situation in Ramadi, where insurgents have control of whole swaths of the downtown area. Retaking the city, McClung explained, would not involve an assault of the kind the Marines staged against Fallujah in 2004. "We don't want to Fallujah...
...thin and need more forces overall. Schoomaker, a former Special Forces officer who was brought back from retirement to run the Army, last week said the Army would "break" without an increase. Congress has allowed the Army to temporarily grow by 30,000 soldiers beyond its active-duty cap of 482,000. It is about 5,000 troops short of that goal. Army officials want the temporary increase to be permanent, and many favor a still larger increase. Schoomaker said that the Army could accommodate an annual increase of up to 7,000 troops...
...COOP. Excluding coursepacks and books needed immediately, shopping online probably could be used, at most, for three-fourths of the student’s purchases: $750 worth. Shopping online could save the student as much as a third off the COOP price, so the student saves $250. If C-CAP provides this same student with $250, it squashes much of the incentive for shopping outside of the COOP...
...CAP would save some of its beneficiaries a little time and money, though not the full value amount printed on their checks. It would cost everyone else a little extra, both at the COOP counter and on the termbill increase that will pay for the C-CAP program. And it would make the COOP’s profits a little fatter. Or, the COOP would argue, make the COOP’s annual rebate recipients a little richer—but forgive me if I am not thrilled about getting 7 percent of my money back a year after...