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...increase the size of grants for needy students. President Bush on Thursday signed into law a $20 billion increase in federal financial aid, boosting the size of some Pell Grants by up to $1,100 per year and gradually cutting the interest rates of federally subsidized loans from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent. The Pell Grant, a form of financial aid given to more than 5 million low-income students each year, will be capped at a maximum of $5,400 per year by 2012 under the new law. Sally C. Donahue, director of financial aid, called the new legislation...
...Zomer said that textbook prices have grown prohibitively high for students. “Students are paying about $900 a year in textbooks, with textbook rates going up at about four times the rate of inflation,” Zomer said. According to a 2006 MASSPIRG report, 77 percent of surveyed Massachusetts professors said that sales representatives rarely or never volunteered the price of textbooks, Zomer said. The Affordable Textbooks Bill, she added, would provide the necessary transparency to faculty members, who decide which books students should purchase. “There’s nothing in the bill that...
...vote. Their trade demands that they shed their citizenry, that they give up the privileges and protections of society for them and their families. The law does not demur to strip away their freedom, and they fill up the ranks of inmates in wild overproportion—over 55 percent of the federal prison population is incarcerated for drug offenses...
...BYUT party of Yuliya Tymoshenko, the former Premier fired in September 2005 by her Orange bloc rival, Victor Yushchenko, appears locked in a neck-to-neck race with the Party of Regions (PR), led by incumbent Premier Victor Yanukovych. With 68 percent of the vote counted, Tymoshenko, whose party advocates closer relations with the West, had 32.59 percent, versus 31.62 percent for Yanukovych, considered closer to Russia. Despite the difference at the moment being a mere 0.97 percent, an already triumphant Tymoshenko promised the media this morning that she would face them next time as Premier. However, as more votes...
...return of cultural assets seized or involuntarily sold during the Occupation. As of this summer, 89 restitution claims had been made, 45 of which have been reported on by the Committee. The government has so far followed the Committee's advice in all cases, some 75 percent favorably resolved for the claimants. "They've made a big effort to make right what was done wrong," says Joel Cahen, Director of the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. Ministry of Culture spokesman Bob van het Klooster says people can submit claims indefinitely, although they expect the Katz' are the last...