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...families,” the update said. According to the Committee, increasing college costs, coupled with student aid, made many students choose to attend community college instead of pursuing bachelor’s degrees. “An inability to start at a four-year college decreases considerably the likelihood of earning a bachelor’s degree,” the report stated. Harvard Director of Financial Aid Sally C. Donahue said that Harvard has recognized this challenge. “We’re doing a lot,” she said. “It?...
...regular consultant to various media outlets. He says police working the case in Praia da Luz "are in no rush to lift the arguido status." Recently, Portuguese police reportedly suggested that the McCanns return to Portugal to film a reenactment of the fateful night. But Williams-Thomas says the likelihood of that happening "is very slim," mainly because the McCanns distrust the police now. "Relations between the McCanns and the police have broken down completely." The couple confirmed to the BBC that they now have no direct contact with the investigators...
...we’ve all come to know very well, the sort that bounces across our email screens daily and is advertised endlessly on campus posters. Shvarts’s pronouncement is hardly revelatory, and certainly conveying this message does not require self-inflicted abuse and abortion. In all likelihood, most of Shvarts’s audience already agrees that we should tolerate gay sex, alternative sexual choices, or recreational sex in general. If they don’t, then the prospect of her gruesome project is unlikely to be what changes their minds.In crafting her project, our new favorite...
...current problems. It offered “membership action plans” to Albania and Croatia but declined Ukraine and Georgia’s requests for similar plans. Many NATO member states saw the prospect of bringing these former Soviet states into the organization as dangerous because of the likelihood that their admission would anger Russia. Instances like these illustrate the political tensions that NATO’s exclusion of Russia causes. NATO was conceived in 1949 as a bulwark against the Communist bloc, which formed the Warsaw Pact in response. Even though the Warsaw Pact dissolved 20 years...
...asked that the data be provided as soon as possible, even in an unfinished form, given the likelihood of a “long process” of organizing...