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...Looks like we won't be needing those 350 student tickets. The home crowd is about 20 strong, and that's being generous. Eerily silent here at Lavietes...
Even in today’s world of multi-billion dollar university endowments and generous research grants, $1 billion can still make a tremendous splash in the life-sciences pool. A new bill in the Massachusetts legislature will provide $1 billion in public funds to life-sciences research. This bill—released by Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 in May of 2007—would allocate $500 million for the construction of research facilities, $250 million for fellowships and grants, and $250 million in tax incentives over the next 10 years. Aimed at promoting Massachusetts...
...Indeed, surveys taken shortly before the election indicated that an astonishing one out of three unemployed Britons planned to vote Tory. Many workers greatly appreciated her feat in bringing the inflation rate down from a high of 22% in 1980 to the current 4%. In addition, Britain's generous array of unemployment benefits, which Thatcher has left largely intact, has blunted the anger of many without jobs...
...dismissed as politically motivated, and her government's early support of the Taliban regime in neighboring Afghanistan is forgotten. Her insistence that 3 million supporters thronged the streets of Karachi to greet her return from exile strains credibility, especially as most journalists and observers put the number at a generous 300,000. Most egregious however, is her overwrought descriptions of the terrible blast that same night. The death toll is enough; her account of watching a video of the event later and hearing the faint cry of Jeay Bhutto - "long live Bhutto" - from the wounded as they lay dying...
...liberal arts experience, it’s fairly well known,” he adds.Rezzo is not only getting a master’s degree; he’s getting monetary aid. Unlike Harvard, the NEC offers merit-based scholarships. “NEC’s been really generous as far as helping me out with what is otherwise a large tuition,” he says. HARVARDWOOD HELPSThough such opportunities are not available for ever artform, those students interested in the entertainment arts have taken matters into their own hands by creating an extracurricular network all their...