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...territory,” Fitzsimmons said. Such families are not “impervious to the increasing cost of college...but not eligible for as much financial aid as they would like.” According to Fitzsimmons, approximately 80 percent of U.S. undergraduates go to college within 200 miles of their hometown, and about 90 percent stay inside a 500-mile radius. He mused that stronger middle-income financial aid offerings were the only way to pull those students away from attractive offers from in-state schools. The heightened attention to financial aid for middle-income families has corresponded...
...dozens are killed. Local soldiers stop a suspicious car at a checkpoint. BRAAAAAT! spits the evildoers' gunfire, and the soldiers are dead. Back at the ballfield death scene, an ambulance drives off, carrying the wounded. KA-BLAM! A suicide bomber was inside. From the roof of a building a mile or so away, the masterminds of these atrocities record it all on video, for bragging rights later...
...Despite the clash at Shwedagon, the monks continued on, their fervor broadcast over loudspeakers: "Let us overthrow the government." By early afternoon, the demonstrators had marched the two miles to the Sule Pagoda, another holy site. Again, the path to the pagoda itself was blocked by hundreds of security forces, many with bayonets fixed. The protestors sat and prayed in front of them. More soldiers armed with rifles arrived, though, and most of the crowd stood up and walked away. Twenty minutes later, the troops opened fire - a 10-second burst above the heads of those marchers who had dared...
...afternoon at the Cloud 9 mall, an incomplete but already bustling nine-story shopping complex half a mile and four Starbucks from my dormitory, I noticed some workers installing several TVs as I climbed an escalator. What I thought were four TVs being mounted around the mezzanine turned out to be eight, since, naturally, they were back to back. Only after walking around the rest of the mall did I notice that 384 TVs were being installed: eight around each of the six mezzanines on each floor...
Sinking his teeth into a burger after a five-mile run, Robert K. Lord ’09 said it tasted like “one of the best [he’d] ever had,” while Ben Kirkup ’97, a non-resident tutor, praised his beer-battered shrimp as “hot” and “crispy.” —Roger R. Lee contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at mchild@fas.harvard.edu...