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...impressive salary means something different to Barnhill than to many of his peers at Harvard, where the median family income for students on financial aid is about $80,000 a year—nearly twice the median income of the average American family. Half the student body receives no Harvard Scholarship aid, according to the financial aid Web site...
...every 10 students across campus comes from a family making less than $40,000 a year, according to the financial aid office’s Web site. That’s not far from the country’s median family income, a little over $48,000 last year...
Sally C. Donahue, director of financial aid at the College, wrote in an e-mail that “The median graduating debt for the Class of 2007 was $6,750, with roughly 750 students having borrowed at some point during their Harvard career.” In contrast, said Donahue, 935 members of the Class of 1997 borrowed, graduating with a median debt...
...1980s, when a wave of foreclosures inspired those iconic Farm Aid concerts, the media's sporadic reports from farm country have tended to focus on floods, droughts and other disasters. But the farm crisis is as over as Barbara Mandrell. Farm incomes are at an all-time high. The median farmer enjoys five times the net worth of the median nonfarmer household. Crop prices have soared--thanks largely to the Federal Government's promotion of corn ethanol over more efficient renewable energies--and yet subsidies have as well...
...injuries, but the crowds lining the path took the full brunt of the blasts. Party members on the truck describe a scene of mayhem and carnage. Body parts and human flesh were scattered across a large radius and a few human torsos could be seen draped across the highway median...