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...massive federal investigation into possible antitrust violations by prestigious colleges continues, Yale University and at least one other school have announced that they are withdrawing from financial aid overlap groups--long thought to be the center of the inquiry...
...overlap groups--of which Harvard is a member--meet several times each spring to discuss the financial aid packages offered to students admitted to more than one of the member schools. The schools say they deliberately try to offer similar packages to each student, so that the students do not have to choose their college based on price alone...
...record, Marine and Army officials insist that their units do not overlap. Behind the scenes, however, Army officers charge that the Marines may be fine for assaulting enemy shorelines but "can't engage beyond the beaches." Marine Brigadier General John Sheehan counterattacked last fall by claiming that an Army light division, which has less firepower than a comparable Marine unit, "is light enough to get there, but just light enough to get itself into trouble. You don't need the Army building toward another Marine Corps." When Powell heard that senior Marine and Army officers would testify before Congress...
...Army's mobile divisions, on the other hand, can drop on targets from aircraft. But to gain such mobility, they must travel with less artillery and heavy armor. The lightly armed Special Operations Forces are equipped to make lightning raids behind enemy front lines. Still, there is enormous overlap between the three separate forces. Taken together, they are simply too much of a good thing...
Since that time, Vogel said, a number of factors have created a growing overlap between the programs. New EALC faculty havew increasingly incorporated the techniques of the social sciences into their work, he said, and two EAS tutors have been hired as EALC head tutors...