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...mail to the student body, Minow announced the suspension of the Public Service Initiative, a program launched in 2008 that waives third-year tuition for students if they commit to five years of public service after graduation. The school also plans to decrease the amount of per-student funding for summer public interest work but will further expand loan repayment assistance for graduates...
...much as courted it and if his films are looked upon as bleak diatribes on the human condition, frankly, he doesn't care. He first turned stomachs in 1989 with The Seventh Continent, which is based on a true story and depicted a young German family driven to commit suicide by the banalities of everyday life. In his next film, Benny's Video, the parents of a teenager who has shot dead a schoolgirl mull over how to dispose of the girl's body as though it were a bowl of leftover noodles threatening to block their drains...
...mail to Law School students, Law School Dean Martha Minow wrote that all current students can continue to participate in the Public Service Initiative and receive the full one-year tuition waiver if they commit to five years of public service after graduation. But it is unlikely that the program will be offered to future incoming classes, including students admitted this fall, Minow wrote...
According to Woodberry, the religious competition provided by Protestant missionaries increased the quality of education by creating incentives for elites to commit resources to help the poor and historically disadvantaged groups...
...women in our armed forces. Major Nidal Hasan, the latest culprit, would have known this better than anyone, having devoted his life to treating soldiers afflicted with PTSD, an alarmingly prevalent condition in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That a mental-health specialist would commit such an atrocious act of malice reflects the severity of this mental condition...