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...students at Harvard and elsewhere, the cuts will mean higher interest rates on loans, although the loan limit will be raised for freshmen and sophomores starting...
...sense of, among other important issues, the frequency of sexual abuse and racial profiling on campus. These are matters that concern all members of the Harvard community. Without access to incident reports compiled by HUPD officers (as opposed to the heavily-filtered police logs that, at present, represent the limit of our access to HUPD records), we simply cannot fulfill our mission to fully inform our readership about the issues that impact the Harvard community. We recognize that the SJC’s ruling marks the end of our legal battle. But the legal battle is only one front...
...Ensure more transparency. Under this plan, lobbyists would have to disclose every dollar they spend on lawmakers. The limit on the value of a gift that aides and lawmakers would be allowed to accept would be lowered from $50 to perhaps $20. Chance of passage: 90%. Many, like Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold, think gifts should be banned outright. "All the T shirts, golf caps and cheap luggage I've been given aren't even worth having," said a lawmaker. "None of these are gifts worth having...
House leaders, eager to burnish their image and expecting more ethics horror stories to emerge, are working with Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona on proposals to reform lobbying (see box). There is talk of lowering the limit, now $50, on the value of a single gift that a lobbyist can give a lawmaker or aide, provoking jokes about a $49.50 party to cash in before any change takes effect. Hastert is considering supporting a ban on junkets for members and aides that are financed by outside groups and restricting travel to government-paid trips. An aide involved...
...that their country should not be trusted with nuclear-fuel techonology. By engineering a confrontation with the West over the nuclear issue, Ahmedinijad has forced his rivals to defend him. This week, even Rafsanjani took time off undermining the President's power to attack the West for trying to limit Iran's nuclear ambitions...