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...Harvard's tuition has been upped just 3.5 percent (still above the near-zero inflation rate to compensate for higher demand for financial aid), financial aid funding has risen 18 percent, and President Faust and Dean Smith have reaffirmed that financial aid will not take a hit despite greater fiscal constraints...
...Jewish. I don’t think it really registered with them that I don’t believe in Jesus.” Korea has a negligible number of Jews, too few to be listed by the CIA World Factbook. In America, Jews make up 1.7 percent of the population according to the CIA, while at Harvard, according to the international Hillel website, about 25 percent of the student body is Jewish. Despite this difference, the filmmakers said that they believe that Jewish students’ experiences will be relevant to Korean audiences. “The Jews...
...routines involve more feather boas than real talent. Fortunately for the audience, we are only subjected to a few flashbacks of his career; Pierre has a severe heart disease and now spends his time observing his fellow Parisians while he waits for an operation that promises only a 50 percent chance of saving his life. His sister, Élise (Juliette Binoche), moves into his apartment to take care of him while struggling with her own romantic difficulties. The plot then alternates between Pierre and Élise’s battles against illness and loneliness, and the lives...
...related websites, is drawing flak from Business School Professor Ben G. Edelman for business practices he says deprive advertisers of basic rights. In a report published last Monday, Edelman outlines what he considers the five basic rights of online advertisers and argues that Google—which commands 72 percent of the online advertising market—systematically violates these rights. In the report, titled “Towards a Bill of Rights for Online Advertisers,” Edelman wrote in support of an advertiser’s right to: “Know where its ads are shown...
public option • parody PSA defending health insurance executives asks "who's really supporting it other than 80 percent of the American people...