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Improving the package for students comes in many forms, but one very visible factor is financial aid. Schools in the Ivy League—and other institutions that only offer need-based aid—cannot target and woo individual students with merit scholarships. Instead, they increase overall levels of need-based aid to attract many members of an incoming class. For fear of losing the best applicants, therefore, competing schools cannot allow their rivals to offer significantly higher need-based aid packages...
...heard. As a result of his investigations, Trinidad's tiny island neighbor Dominica has filed suit against the Citibank unit, alleging that it secretly and aggressively overcharged the government of Dominica on a bond issue to finance the island's first international airport. "We believe the allegations are without merit," says Lula Rodriguez, a Citibank spokeswoman. Seereeram hopes Dominica's lawsuit will bring renewed scrutiny to a case closer to home: a 1993 deal to refinance a natural-gas exploration project, in which he claims Citibank overcharged Trinidad's government. Citibank has denied any impropriety in that transaction...
...scale:While the White House wants a merit-based approach to salaries, unions are worried that such broad control would result in favoritism based on party affiliations and other connections...
...moral- versus intellectual-political framework is the “living wage.” Left-wingers think that Harvard has the money to pay its workers $10.50 an hour (or whatever the wage du jour is) so it therefore has the moral responsibility to do so. And by merit of having coined the term that is the issue of the debate, liberals have set up a rhetorical conundrum for those who oppose it. To be opposed to the “living wage” would logically suggest one supports a “non-living (death) wage...
...We’re mainly interested in how well people fight,” he continues in jest. “That’s the merit we’re concerned about...Funny guys fight well. And funny ladies...