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...Yale, families earning less than $60,000 will not be expected to contribute to other educational expenses, including room and board. In 2006, Stanford announced that families earning less than $45,000 would be exempt from paying tuition. The new initiative also eliminates the need for student loans by lowering the typical student contribution from $6,100 to $4,500, which students can cover with work-study or outside scholarships. Under the program, the average family contribution for students receiving financial aid in 2008 will fall 16 percent. The initiative will go into effect for the upcoming academic year...
...cocktails at the Croatian and U.S. embassies. Flames licked up to the second floor of the old brick building which is located in the heart of the capital. Serbian paramilitary police, arriving in Humvees, dispersed the crowd using tear gas. But firefighters later discovered a charred body in a lower room. The embassy had been largely empty at the time and it was not immediately clear whether the body was that of a protester or an embassy employee. Speaking at the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad condemned the attack, saying he would seek a U.N. resolution "reminding the Serb...
...altered the shape of the nation's politics, especially within the Conservative Party. Fading fast is the image of the Tories as the private preserve of landed gentlemen who went to the right schools, believe in moderation, and carry a certain sense of noblesse oblige toward the lower classes. Thatcher has taken the party out of the hands of the gentry and turned it over to people like herself who have worked their way up in the world and who sometimes see a sense of social responsibility as an unaffordable luxury. She has forged an alliance between skilled workers...
...they have been flocking to an opposition party called the Left, an amalgam of the former East Germany's ruling communist party and West German leftists. Though long established in the East, the Left managed in January to enter state legislatures in the large western states of Hesse and Lower Saxony...
...added that Harvard can help lead a national initiative to lower emissions averages...