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Currently Harvard's standard full stipend of $11,590 places it in the middle of the pack, but the two-year duration of its full fellowship offer lags behind all but one surveyed school, Brown University. By comparison, the University of Pennsylvania awards graduate students $13,000 for up to five years...
...school, Raines at one time served as President of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and is currently Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Kennedy School. In addition to his contributions to the University, Raines served as the architect of this summer's historic budget bill. In comparison with many of his Washington contemporaries, Raines' efforts have met with relatively little media attention. Yet his quiet toil has produced huge benefits to the nation. As the chief actor in the budget negotiations, he has been pivotal in determining the outcome of the most important of the Federal Government...
Canada is a good comparison for a number of reasons. First, it's culturally the most similar to the U.S. of any country in the world. This is important when talking about something as personal as money and people's relationships with...
...such moments Quarantine has the feel of Samuel Beckett's philosophical vaudeville. But that is where any comparison with the playwright should end. None of Crace's characters is a despairing optimist waiting for Godot or any other no-show. Sacred or profane, each represents the beginning...
...trekked through the mists of the Huang Shan mountains, I came upon a young man painting the scenery with traditional brush and ink on rice paper. He smiled proudly as he showed me his work. It was indeed quite beautiful...for a painting, but it paled in comparison to the living scene before my eyes: a silken shimmer of pastel clouds clinging in tendrils to the tops of mountains, an endless dance of wind and fog that alternately revealed and concealed subtle changes in the dark hills beneath. How futile it must feel for a mere mortal...