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Loans, the other traditional option available to students on financial aid, have their own problems. The prospect of a mountain of debt often coerces students to apply to more affordable schools. Debt can also curtail students’ career choices; for those who have thousands of dollars worth of debt, a career in education or public service becomes far less affordable and thus acceptable than one in law or investment banking...
...viewing of a short documentary film on the Abu Ghneim Mountain Israeli Settlement Project opened the event. Hanauer later referred to the project as an example of Israeli expansion into Palestinian lands. It was followed by introductory remarks by Hanauer and Jeremy C. Bird, a second-year HDS student who has been working with Hanauer for the past year...
...party was interrupted by Daniel Weinstein ’03-’04 competing in the short-track speed skating race. I did find it a little odd that despite my never having set foot on an ice skating rink or anything more difficult than a green square mountain, I’ve been this deeply enthralled with events from snowboarding to the skeleton...
...Lays of the world, simply advocated more exploration, more production and more deregulation - oh, and for the personally virtuous, more conservation. There was indisputably more for business than for the environment in proposals to drill the Alasksan National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) and to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. An unapologetic Bush was not going to curb coal, oil or nuclear energy - at least until he won West Virginia again...
...Bush is keeping the energy mood as light and green as he can, posing next to fuel-efficient, low-emissions, hybrid-type cars - a truck, an SUV, and a minivan, no less - but he doesn't appear to be backing down on ANWR or Yucca Mountain. And with House passage giving him some rhetorical leverage over Daschle - "the Senate must pass something," that sort of thing - Bush will be pushing pretty hard for the chance to notch a win on the domestic front...