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...plans" to move to a grading method similar to Yale's. In other law school news, Kagan announced this week that the Law School had raised over $450 million in its capital campaign, intended to finance an ambitious agenda that includes new buildings, an expanded faculty, and more generous financial aid programs. The five-year campaign, which had a target of $400 million and was launched in the summer of 2003, is the largest fundraising drive in the history of legal education. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...generous as that sounds, the 1944 bill--among the most significant pieces of legislation ever passed by the U.S. Congress--included much more. Its education benefits threw open the doors of élite academies to the masses: in 1947, veterans made up almost half the nation's college students. It also offered low-interest, no-money-down mortgages, backed by the U.S. government, that allowed millions of families to purchase their first homes. The move helped spark the postwar baby boom and the suburbanization of America in the 1950s: it effectively created the American middle class...
...McCain's personal physician, Eckstein, said he hoped that the standard would be even more generous. "Age," he said, "should not be a limiting factor in this...
...Reform efforts are further complicated by the upcoming referendum in Ireland over the E.U.'s Lisbon Treaty: the 'no' campaign has generated remarkable traction by arguing that Ireland risks losing its generous farm subsidies if voters accept the treaty...
...concerned about the estimated $4 billion annual price tag and the incentive he worries it might give people to leave an already strapped military, has sponsored his own competing proposal. It increases the existing monthly education benefit from around $1,100 to $1,500 a month while adding more generous benefits for those who've served more than 12 years...