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Yasser retains the optimism that allowed him to see hope amid the explosions of March 2003. He regards himself as lucky. Unlike most Iraqis, he has moved his family out of danger. He knows Amman isn't a permanent shelter: Jordan has been generous to Iraq's exiles, but their sheer number is straining the resources of the tiny kingdom. For the moment, however, Yasser is dwelling on small mercies. "My children are alive, and these days, that is enough to ask," he says. If a new life is no longer possible, he'll settle for just life...
...star” salaries that are significantly above average tenure salaries.He pointed to the examples of former Professors Pedro Noguera and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, two prominent GSE civil rights scholars who left for New York University in 2004 after receiving what Schwartz calls “extremely generous offers that Harvard can’t compete with.”Given these challenges, students and faculty alike agree that alternate methods of attracting and retaining faculty of color and faculty who study civil rights need to be unearthed.Lilly B. Piper, a GSE master’s student and Resident Tutor...
...perhaps the old measures of power and influence are not adequate to our time. After all, the horrors of Iraq are loud testimony to the limitations of hard power, applied by men bearing arms. The nations and people of the E.U. are generous when it comes to aiding the poor and disadvantaged; sensible in forming policies that address pressing environmental challenges. And perhaps above all - as the next four pages show - the institutions that give shape to Europe's growing unity have made life better for those who live there. That seems a timid, small success. But for anyone...
...contribution to their children’s education, while students are expected to contribute $2,000 on a yearly basis. Tuition, room, board, health fees, travel expenses, and personal expenses are all covered; the total expense is just short of $50,000 per year.Yet even with this tremendously generous system, students have had difficulties budgeting the money that the Financial Aid Office allots for “personal expenses.” Currently set at $2,795 per year, “personal expenses” are meant to cover everything not provided by Harvard. This includes items from toothpaste...
...something that we are always talking, but the DeWolfe issue has certainly increased the urgency,” Georgi wrote. “One thing we are talking about is trying to use some of our common spaces more for House events and to be a bit less generous in allowing student organizations to reserve them...