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Starting next school year, hundred of Harvard students could enjoy more generous financial aid packages thanks to a new law that will lower interest rates on federal loans and increase the size of grants for needy students. President Bush on Thursday signed into law a $20 billion increase in federal financial aid, boosting the size of some Pell Grants by up to $1,100 per year and gradually cutting the interest rates of federally subsidized loans from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent. The Pell Grant, a form of financial aid given to more than 5 million low-income students each...
...Centennial Bell, a half-size replica bell, and bell-shaped cookies rang in concert yesterday at the Business School’s Baker Library. The library’s belltower became home to the first of 18 new bells being delivered from Russia to Harvard, with the rest slated to be installed in Lowell House next summer. The new set is coming to Cambridge in exchange for Harvard’s historic bells from Danilov Monastery in Moscow, which an American industrialist purchased from Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union and gave to the University in 1930. When...
...These costs, unfortunately, aren’t just a minor inconvenience—they’re a significant barrier to entry. These exorbitant fees effectively discourage students from low-income backgrounds from becoming doctors, reducing both the diversity and size of the applicant pool. This is a problem that disproportionately affects blacks and Hispanics—minorities that are already grossly underrepresented in health care...
...began building as a tribute to her father in 1996, three years before she fled into exile under a cloud of as yet unanswered corruption charges. But while thousands of her supporters have promised to welcome her home, leaders of her Pakistan People's Party concede that the size of the crowds will likely be but a fraction of the millions that turned out to cheer her triumphant return in 1988, to claim her father's mantle and lead the country back to democracy after a decade of military rule...
...same time, the generals have expanded their influence by doubling the army's size in just two decades. Burma's fighting force is now 400,000 strong, making it one of the largest militaries per capita in the world. Any signs of internal dissent within the armed forces are quickly suppressed. General Khin Nyunt, the former head of military intelligence who was once hailed as a potential reformer for suggesting dialogue with democracy leader Suu Kyi, now languishes under house arrest on corruption charges. Dissident groups in neighboring Thailand are peopled with former army officers who had the temerity...