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However, what is likely to change at Harvard is the percentage of aid met by self-help requirements. Miller said this portion of the student's burden might be absorbed by an increase in direct grants, or reduced using outside scholarship funds on the Stanford model...
...supermarket is starting to look more like a restaurant, places like EatZi's in Dallas are an unconventional hybrid of the two. Started by Phil Romano, the founder of Fuddruckers restaurant chain, EatZi's serves more than 400 items like poached raspberry salmon ($4.99 a portion) or grilled tenderloin ($19.99 per lb.) prepared by 35 on-site chefs and bakers daily. Shoppers can sniff 100 different kinds of cheeses or make their own six-packs of international and domestic microbrews to the strains of Italian opera...
...eight-year low, that percentage has more than tripled. The second reason is that Latinos, it turns out, do vote. And they have visited retribution on the California Republican Party for the attacks of 1994. The Latino share of the California electorate has nearly doubled this decade, and the portion of it going to Republicans has collapsed. In 1984 Ronald Reagan won 48% of the Latino vote in California. In 1996 Bob Dole got 6%, and Latinos swept Democrats into control of the state assembly. Internal Republican surveys note that by 2020, Latinos will constitute nearly 40% of the California...
Harvard alumni like Kennedy are still veryactive in government--several dozen graduates sitin the House, and another significant portion inthe Senate--and these connections are also used byHarvard lobbyists...
Some might dismiss the idea that such unsavory things will arise when each student is only assessed a minuscule portion of the bill. Perversely, the fact that the bill is so small exacerbates the insult. With parents working to pay for an already exorbitant tuition, having a charge of $6.50 tacked on their child's term bill with the terse explanation "damage done to common area" rubs salt in a raw wound...