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...average grant in the office is half of the $14,700 tuition, and many receive greater funding, with students from poorer regions often receiving full tuition in addition to a $5,900 stipend for housing and other essentials in Cambridge. Ninety percent of Divinity School students receive some form of aid, Gardner says...
...Tuesday?s compromise: a test program covering 500,000 people. Most Democrats are deeply suspicious of the plan's supposed windfall, arguing that only those who have money can afford to save it. ""Their program attracts only the well-off," said Dick Gephardt, "while the sicker and poorer people are left behind." The cost of treating those needier patients, opponents contend, will quickly drive up Medicare premiums when healthier seniors are allowed to squirrel away unused Medicare funds. To make sure that the test is meaningful, the White House promises to make sure the pilot program enrolls a representative slice...
...admit a small number in the first round so that there will still be a pool of acceptable candidates in the future. The fear is that future expansion won't be considered if all the countries that can meet NATO's membership requirements right now are admitted, meaning poorer countries like Slovakia will never be admitted. "We must pledge that the first new members will not be the last and that no European democracy will be excluded because of where it sits on the map," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told the foreign ministers...
...soon as I heard the result), urging, as you do, that he reconsider the case. I have also advised Dean Jeremy Knowles about my serious concern. I hope your argument will prevail with President Rudenstine, since I too think the university--and our students--will be much the poorer without Bonnie Honig's presence on our faculty...
...study cited by Colborn, researchers found that by the age of four, children whose mothers consumed two to three servings of fish from Lake Michigan each month had poorer short-term memory, lower cognitive processing speed, auditory and verbal deficits and quantitative memory deficits...