Word: provisionally
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Yet, thanks to a provision Congress inserted into the Higher Education Act (HEA) when it was reauthorized in 1998, the financial aid office promptly replied that she was no longer eligible for money. Marisa Garcia, who until that moment had every reason in the world to expect a bright, college...
These young people are the victims of the Drug Free Student Loans Provision of the Higher Education Act. This law denies all forms of federal financial aid to any student who has been convicted of possessing or selling illegal substances. Conviction of possession carries with it a one-year ineligibility...
Yet, to say that our politicians simply don’t realize the harm done by the law would be naive. The reason why this law remains on the books has nothing to do with ambiguity over its injustice or inefficiency. The Drug Free Student Loans Provision is patently and...
To be sure, the Drug Free Student Loans Provision remains law not because its injustice is debatable, but rather because of the quagmire into which debate over drug policy has sunk. Rhetoric has eclipsed logic as politicians come down with an iron fist knowing that it will win them votes...
What's the most powerful political institution in Germany right now? It's not Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD), which was humiliated in state elections last week in Hesse and Lower Saxony (Schröder's home state). And it's not the rival Christian...