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...classes and generally provided some financial aid packages to their returning and incoming students. So their institutional financial aid budget was tapped out in some ways [when the program was finalized]," Day said. "That was difficult for some schools to maneuver, trying to maximize participation but also trying to predict what they could spend."Next year, the University may find it easier to coordinate and expand participation in Yellow Ribbon because of experience gained from administering the program this year, potentially more funds to support the program, and greater flexibility in the aid budget cycle, Day said.While reports earlier...
...ended seven decades of one-party rule. Like Eastern Europeans, Mexicans hoped that opening up their political system would bring them better-paid jobs and safer streets. Instead, they have seen a wave of kidnappings, daily shoot-outs among drug gunmen and crowds of jobless; this year some analysts predict that the economy will shrink by more than 8%, the worst drop since the Great Depression. (Read about why Mexico's tourist industry seems cursed...
...impossible for an outsider, in Iran for 10 days, to sift through the governmental opacity, the contradictory demonstrations, and predict what comes next. It seems likely that no matter how many people flood the streets in protest, the Supreme Leader will continue to back Ahmadinejad. It also seems likely that while Barack Obama should continue to press for negotiations, he shouldn't be too optimistic about the prospect of success...
...competing crowds of supporters mass on the streets each night, some, like Hadian, are now predicting a Mousavi victory in the first round. (If no candidate wins a simple majority in Friday's vote, the top two contenders will meet in a runoff a week later.) Others are more cautious, unsure of the mood outside the capital and aware that Iranian elections are notoriously difficult to predict...
...joined a group of a dozen island nations that successfully petitioned the U.N. General Assembly for a June 3rd resolution declaring climate change a security issue. The goal is to persuade the Security Council to address the threat posed by rising sea levels to the nations' existences. Scientists predict that many of Palau's smaller islands may become uninhabitable as they sink into...