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Harvard’s graduate schools, on the other hand, do have one common preferred lender: Citibank. According to the Harvard Business School (HBS) Web site, HBS finalized an agreement in 1998 with the Student Loan Corporation, a subsidiary of Citibank, under which Citibank would be granted preferred lender status. While international students can receive direct subsidized loans from HBS, the school also advertises CitiAssist loans, which have higher interest rates than the Federal Direct Stafford/Ford Loans and the Federal Perkins Loan, but are available regardless of citizenship status and have more flexible credit requirements...
Similarly, while Harvard Law School (HLS) offers international students direct loans through the HLS Loan Program, the CitiAssist loan through the Harvard Education Loan Program and Citibank Stafford loans are also advertised prominently on the HLS Web site, with this statement in small print: “There are many other lenders (such as Access Group, Nellie Mae, and Wells Fargo) available for your Stafford loans that we are not able to outline here...the incentives vary according to the lender...
...veteran of the insurance industry, says, "It's good that they have spoken out, but I don't see them as serious in changing the insurance industry." That sentiment is echoed by Michael Brune, executive director of Rainforest Action Network, which has successfully lobbied Bank of America, Citibank and major U.S. retailer Home Depot to change their sustainable-development positions. "If you want to be an environmental leader, then you need to switch from relying on dirty old energy and embrace new, renewable strategies...
...Sirleaf said. Liberia was a relatively peaceful country from its founding by former African-American slaves in 1847 until a 1980 military coup overthew then-president William Tolbert. Sirleaf, who had served as finance minister in Tolbert’s government, fled to Kenya, where she worked for Citibank. She returned to her homeland briefly in the mid-1980s but was put under house arrest for opposing the military dictator. The country deteriorated into a half-decade civil war that began in 1990. After the war, Sirleaf lost the 1995 presidential election to Taylor, who is currently facing charges...
...first black female president and Africa’s first elected female head of state. A 1971 graduate of the Kennedy School of Government—where she earned a master’s in public administration—Johnson-Sirleaf is a former World Bank and Citibank economist who has promised to bring stability and economic development to her West African nation...