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Along with Chocolate and Cheese, Switzerland is synonymous with secrecy: it's long been known as a place to put your money if you don't like taxes or you commit crimes for a living. Not an entirely fair characterization, to be sure, but it's a safe bet that the decision by Swiss bank UBS to turn over the names of some accused tax evaders has a few of the world's richest criminals a bit nervous. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...simplify the form in any way possible—though we hope that potential streamlining does not engender a wave of supplemental questionnaires required by individual schools. To ensure that the sheer length and complexity of the FAFSA form does not discourage potential applicants from applying, Harvard should commit itself to offering assistance to applicants who cannot decipher the unfortunately labyrinthine financial-aid process on their own. Paying for college is already difficult enough—the last thing we need is for the paperwork to be an obstacle...
...suite of new initiatives, including the promise of an affordable education for all Americans if they volunteer in their community or serve their country. "By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world," he said. "Tonight, I ask every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training." (Read "Under Financial Stress, More Colleges Cap Enrollments...
...counter-claims. Arrested in Pakistan in 2002, Mohamed was allegedly subject to rendition to Morocco and Afghanistan, before ending up in Guantánamo. U.S. officials said he had trained at terror camps and planned a dirty bomb campaign. Last May the Pentagon formally charged Mohamed with conspiring to commit terrorism and war crimes. The charges were dropped five months later, but not before Mohamed's defense team used the British courts to try to secure classified U.S. intelligence material held by the British government, which the lawyers claimed would prove that evidence against their client had been obtained under...
...there clearly will be expectations that the allies must do more," Gates said Thursday during a trip to Poland, his first abroad since being retained as Defense Secretary after the handover from President Bush to Obama. But, he added, "I think the likelihood of getting the allies to commit significant numbers of additional troops is not very great...