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...scholars at the Kennedy School of Government seek to increase the number of low-income students applying to higher education institutions by simplifying the application form and formula for calculating federal financial aid. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is a standard form that many college- and university-bound students fill out to apply for federal financial aid and tuition assistance, including Pell Grants. The 2005-2006 FAFSA is a five-page form that includes 127 questions embedded within seven different steps, which assesses students’ abilities to afford college. Associate Professor of Public Policy Susan...
...court say they have only recently figured out how to measure these ideological movements. A big problem has always been trying to compare Justices and cases from different decades. The math is complex, but Professor Lee Epstein of Northwestern Law School and three other professors came up with a formula that in effect puts the 26 Justices who served at least 10 court terms since 1937 on the bench at the same time. They essentially grouped cases involving similar areas of the law and placed the votes in those cases on a scale ranging from very liberal to very conservative...
...special is an interesting test of the real power of Idol--to see if viewers love it enough to vote with their wallets as well as their cell phones. But it's a risk too, to mess with the formula, possibly endanger the brand. Idol's virtues as TV are its simplicity and its almost hermetically sealed environment. When you watch Idol, there's no world outside Idol; it makes for more drama that way. So why break the spell by introducing the complicated problems of the outside world...
...sophomore midfielder Max Motschwiller to give the Crimson a 3-2 lead after a quarter.Two Denver goals in the second quarter sandwiched an unassisted score from Calvert, before the Crimson put the clamp down in the second-half shutout.“I think it was a really good formula,” Anderson said of Harvard’s long possessions and the resulting rest for the defense. “When our defense was in, I think they were playing at their best.”The Crimson dominated the possession battle thanks to another great faceoff performance...
...holding regular meetings, Rice's efforts to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace are looking more like crisis management than visionary deal-making. She had hesitated to spell out exactly what she meant by "bold outreach," but had urged the Arab leaders heading for Riyadh to not merely to endorse a formula for peace - the Arab League's Beirut initiative, first adopted in 2002, calls for full peace and normalization of relations if Israel withdraws from Arab lands occupied in 1967 - but also to provide a mechanism through which Arabs and Israelis could begin discussing the formula. "Regional states," she said, "should...