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...yield represents a 1.5 percent increase over last year’s rate, which was the highest in the nation. The admissions office announced yesterday an 85.3 percent yield for students eligible for HFAI, which also sharply reduces the cost for students whose parents make less than $80,000 per year. Two-thirds of all College students receive an aid package, the statement said. “We want to make sure that talented students from all economic backgrounds are aware that Harvard and all higher education is open to them,” Fitzsimmons said in an interview yesterday...
...majority of UC members chose the constitutional amendment to create an Outreach and Services Committee (OSC) at Monday’s council meeting over two other proposals—one to downsize the council to two committees and reduce the UC’s membership to two representatives per House and another to divide the Student Affairs Committee into two separate committee...
...good reason. The itinerary for the trip, provided by Abramoff to Safavian a month before departure, was lavish. The private jet to Europe was followed by a stay at the Old Course Hotel (current rates begin at $450 per night), afternoon teeing off at the Kingsbarns links golf course and a late dinner. Golf the following day at a different course was to be followed by dinner in Edinburgh and the famous "Military Tattoo" parade at Edinburgh Castle. Three more days of golf at five different courses were to be followed by a stopover in London at the Mandarin Oriental...
...start reconstruction--some 200,000 homes in New Orleans alone need to be rebuilt--but supplies may be tight as the city is an import hub for cement and other building materials. Plywood will probably cost more for a while; after Hurricane Andrew, the price shot from $222 per...
...children’s caloric intake, the calories they do contain provide little nutritional value and are less filling than calories consumed through food. As former President Bill Clinton, who helped to broker the agreement, noted, “If an 8-year old took in 45 less calories per day, by the time he reached high school, he would weigh 20 pounds less than he would have weighed otherwise.” Each shift made by the government, school districts, and corporations toward encouraging healthy eating is important, but without larger initiatives such as this one, necessary changes...