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...organization that is in desperate need of additional U.S. dollars is the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a highly efficient multilateral institution that funds grant proposals from countries afflicted with heavy disease burdens. Congress authorized $1 billion for the Global Fund in 2004, but will likely spend only $550 million—the Bush initiative is calling for just $200 million per year. The Global Fund needs our support now. But the administration is too busy passing the buck. They won’t contribute more, they say, until the European Union (E.U.). does. The E.U. makes...
...safety advisory published by the University recommends that students walking between the Mather-Dunster area and the Yard take the triangular path from Cowperthwaite Street to Grant Street, turn left on Grant Street, right on DeWolfe Street, left on Mt. Auburn Street and right on Plympton Street to Mass...
...Goodridge is cause for concern as well as celebration. The Court chose not to grant a marriage license to Hillary and Julie Goodridge, but instead gave the legislature 180 days “to take such action as it may deem appropriate in light of [the Court’s] opinion.” As gay and lesbian couples plan June weddings, opponents of same-sex marriage are concocting schemes to circumvent the Court’s ruling...
...great land of ours can apply to any college or university in any one of the 50 states and not be turned away because their family is poor.” But soon, only the wealthiest will be able to afford college. President Bush cut funding for the Pell Grant program and for AmeriCorps, drastically reducing the federal role in ensuring quality education for students who have difficulty paying for it. This clearly harms our future economy, to say nothing of our founding values of justice and equal opportunity...
...need a new federal commitment to higher education in America. We must restore the cuts to the Pell Grant and AmeriCorps programs, but we must also do more than that. As president, I will guarantee that every eighth grade student who pledges to finish high school will receive $10,000 a year in grants and loans for higher education, will never have to pay more than 10 percent of their income on loan repayment, and will have their loans paid in full after working for 10 years. For those students interested in public service, the deal is even better: Those...