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...unclear exactly what hoops Iraqi students wishing to study in the United States must jump through in order to be trusted. The restrictive visas already issued to students after exhaustive background checks are now considered insufficient. Apparently the U.S. was being too lax by granting al-Dewachi only single-entry visas and forbidding him to leave the country for the first three years of his stay. Five years ago, under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, the U.S. did not consider al-Dewachi enough of a security risk to deny him a visa. Yet now, with Iraq a democracy...
Politicians and higher education experts welcomed the proposal to increase federal Pell Grant funding by the largest amount in three decades last week. But some experts have suggested that the increase may instead disadvantage the lowest-income students entering universities, though Harvard students will likely not be affected. The Pell Grant—a form of federal financial aid that allows more than five million low-income students to receive help—would come at the expense of reducing or eliminating 44 other financial aid iniatives, according to a congressional budget proposal. That cut would include eliminating the Supplemental...
...second anniversary of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination, his son and political heir bluntly warns that a failure to establish an international tribunal to try his father's killers will grant the Syrian regime a "license to kill" in Lebanon and dash any hopes of democracy spreading in the Middle East. "There is a country and a regime that has been pounding at Lebanon with assassinations and explosions after explosions and killings after killings, which have been going on for over 30 years," Saad Hariri told TIME in an exclusive interview in his heavily guarded home in Beirut...
...isn’t that in place already?’” Prior to decisions regarding new legislation, Financial Committee (FiCom) Chair Alexander N. “Zander” Li ‘08 had briefed the Council, announcing revisions to the process for allocation of grants to student groups and the posting of regulations governing those processes online. Among the changes Li mentioned was the ability for student groups to track the progress of their grant allocation from beginning to end via the Internet and the collection of 100% of expenditure receipts from those groups awarded...
Freshman social life at Harvard can be fairly depressing. Riding in on a white horse to solve this ever-pressing problem is the Undergraduate Council (UC), which, ever reluctant to leave constituents dissatisfied, recently doubled the value of its three weekly freshman party grants. While freshmen used to be allotted only $50 to plan a rager, they now have a cool $100. That’s a lot of chips and salsa. Unfortunately, it’s not much else. The UC’s actions are well intentioned, but will be ineffective, and the grant increase should live...