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Last week Harvard announced another leap forward for financial aid: now families earning less than $60,000 a year need not make any contribution, a 50 percent increase in that critical number. Raising this baseline, however, was the expected next step after other schools topped Harvard’s figure...
...hope, will have ripple effects throughout higher education by compelling other schools to increase their aid packages as well in order to compete for low-income students. The announcement that general need-based scholarship funding will increase by 6.2 percent this fall is also welcome news. The leap is a bigger one than that of previous years—in 2005, scholarship funding rose 5.8 percent—and will help soften the blow of higher tuition. We are heartened by the words of Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, who said last spring that...
...several of its constituent villages and bring in 5,000 laborers to create an enormous man-made lake as part of a program to attract real estate investment and tourism. They'd recommended that local leaders give Yu an audience and consider hiring him. "It sounds like the Great Leap Forward"?Mao's disastrous campaign to boost economic productivity in the 1950s?Yu said, as he sped toward Changgou in a van full of landscape designers. "But maybe I can stop them...
...simultaneously opening new restaurants: after P (which he no longer co-owns) came seven others--plus a bar and a wine shop--that have all succeeded, with one exception. Batali routinely mocks the fustian techniques of French cooking, so it seemed quite a leap last year for him and Bastianich to launch Bistro du Vent, a French restaurant on 42nd Street. The food isn't quite French and isn't quite Batali. Struggling for an identity, Bistro du Vent is the first Batali-Bastianich venture where you can easily get a seat. Both men seem to sigh heavily whenever...
...save of the season, stranding two baserunners in the eighth and working out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth. New Jersey native Harry Douglas ignited the first-inning rally with a leadoff single. With the aid of two walks and an error, Harvard was again able to leap out to an early 2-0 advantage. “All year we’ve been spotting everybody a few in the first inning,” sophomore hurler Shawn Haviland said. “To jump out with a couple in the first inning, in both games...